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 SAA32740; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:59 +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 SAA00080 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9EGgvD05768 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g9EGgvB98381 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (frisch@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.12.3/jb-1.1) id g9EGguJ4010865 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alain Frisch To: Caml list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I can't understand this recurring obstination: we _have_ a package > manager, it's name is 'findlib'. > It's ligthweight, simple, and do its dirty work well. Of course findlib is useful ! But you can't do: ocamlfind fetch some_package to have findlib automatically download and install the last version of some_package and its dependencies. I guess this is the kind of fonctionality people mean when referring to a package manager. -- Alain ------------------- 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