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 RAA15535; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:35:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA15650 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:35:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from shell5.ba.best.com (shell5.ba.best.com [206.184.139.136]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f7RFZDP05121 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:35:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (bpr@localhost) by shell5.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with ESMTP id IAA10961 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:35:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Rogoff To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] standard regex package In-Reply-To: <86heutsfcq.fsf@speakeasy.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On 27 Aug 2001, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Brian> A better apporach might be to ape Python and the SML Basis > Brian> Library by providing a generic "OS" module which abstracts at > Brian> least Unix/Win/Mac away. I would prefer this, since I feel > Brian> silly using Unix. on a Windows box :-). > > Surely you _don't_ mean the LCD of Unix/Win/Mac, That's exactly what I mean. > and throwing out all the APIs which are specific to Unix but _so_ darn > useful? Please read my reply to Gerd. I'm not suggesting throwing away anything, in fact I suggest adding stuff. In case it wasn't clear, I meant to have a high level "LCD" module for generic OS stuff (call it GenerOS, or VirtuOS for virtual OS :), *and* have Unix, Windows, Mac, BeOS, Amiga (OK, now I'm just being silly :) modules for those APIs. If you really want to get extreme there could be multiple Unix modules for each Unix variation, and multiple Windows and Mac modules for each variation of those OSes, but I think OS, Posix, Windows, Mac, etc should be sufficient. > Why do you think I am a GNU/Linux user in the first place? Honestly, I haven't spent much time pondering the matter. :-) -- 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