From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA05174; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:05:09 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA05235 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:05:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from outbound28-2.lax.untd.com (vlan1-1.bigip2.lax.untd.com [64.136.28.160]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i3E667jq010288 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:06:08 +0200 Received: from outbound28-2.lax.untd.com (smtp01.lax.untd.com [10.130.24.121]) by smtpout06.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABAH3TZQAC8W36A for (sender ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:06:54 -0700 (PST) Received: (qmail 15745 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2004 05:05:58 -0000 Received: from dsc05-sei-wa-199-182-71-84.rasserver.net (HELO vangogh) (199.182.71.84) by smtp01.lax.untd.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2004 05:05:58 -0000 From: "Brandon J. Van Every" To: Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Re: GODI vs. Ocamake Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:14:53 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20040414.115245.31191001.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal X-ContentStamp: 11:5:290042498 X-MAIL-INFO: 05ee0a7a6f0a7a03bb7a2f23773b471f2f4b1f2fe3972ffba7abde X-UNTD-STORE-INFO: URL:grisoft.com) X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; brandon:99 caml-list:01 ocamake:01 jacques:01 roof:99 priorities:01 belabor:01 python:01 spawned:01 ocamake:01 brandon:99 seattle:99 2004:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 303 Jacques GARRIGUE wrote: > > I think that it would be much more reasonable to have a packaging > system controlling all of ocaml, but only ocaml. Reasonable, but foreign libraries aren't going away. Not until OCaml has everything under its own roof, and that will be quite some time. A proper OCaml package system will have deal with foreign libraries somehow, even if the support is half-assed. > Last, we need support for windows, and for binary packages. I hope you only mean "last" as a way of listing things needed, i.e. first, second, last. If you mean these are your last priorities, I'd never contribute to such a project. I'm bloody fed up with GNU Make on Windows for reasons I won't belabor here. > Which creates another problem: GODI is based on C tools and BSD > makefiles. I'm not sure this is the favorite kind of things ocaml > programmers would maintain. An OCaml-centric packaging tool should be written in OCaml. Nobody's switching to OCaml out of their love for C and C++! If that means GODI is unsuitable to task, that is unfortunate but reality is reality. Other languages such as Python and Java have spawned their own build tools. There's a lot more to the world than Make. So how is OCamake? Is it not the obvious place to begin? Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA "The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back." - anonymous entrepreneur --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.643 / Virus Database: 411 - Release Date: 3/25/2004 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners