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 VAA08242; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:28:52 +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 VAA08260 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:28:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from shell5.ba.best.com (shell5.ba.best.com [206.184.139.136]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f7NJSoX04372 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:28:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (bpr@localhost) by shell5.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with ESMTP id MAA04756 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:28:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Rogoff To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] standard regex package In-Reply-To: <20010823110821.B5828@caddr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Miles Egan wrote: [... snip ...] > These would all be very nice, I agree, but I also think we need something better > than str and sooner than all these things could be implemented. Maybe some kind > of transitional scheme would work? I agree, from a pragmatic point of view a better regexp matcher would make OCaml significantly sexier to all of those poor deluded Python and Perl programmers. The other stuff can come later. I think Markus has a very good point about some distutils (Python) like facility being even more important. Once such a framework is in place we can have an OCaml CPAN. Last time I looked findlib ran only on Unix, which is a big problem. On the subject of "social tools", the program Neel is looking for is this one http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ocamlweb/index.en.html and Hevea of course. There is also OCamlDoc, which seems quite nice too, but ocamlweb is used in a few more libraries I think. > While were on the subject of beginner usability, it seems to me that if dynamic > loading of c-libraries is still a ways off, it might be nice to build the unix > module into the toplevel at install time. A better apporach might be to ape Python and the SML Basis Library by providing a generic "OS" module which abstracts at least Unix/Win/Mac away. I would prefer this, since I feel silly using Unix. on a Windows box :-). -- Brian ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr