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 TAA02053; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:54 +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 TAA00272 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:53 +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 g9EHxrD07248 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:53 +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 g9EHxqB15028 ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (frisch@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.12.3/jb-1.1) id g9EHxqiG023030 ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:52 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alain Frisch To: Stefano Zacchiroli cc: Caml list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20021014173931.GD10510@cs.unibo.it> 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: > 1) does we really need such a feature, aren't distribution born for such > issues? (obviously I'm thinking about the Linux world here) Well, Linux is not the center of the world (even of the Unix-world). There are several OS, several distributions, and you're not always sys admin on the system you're working on (or don't want to use root priveleges to install an ocaml package). > 2) if we really need such a feature (for example just to have > transparent access to packages between different linux distributions > or between linux and windows and mac and ... worlds) who is > responsible to keep an archive of available package gettable via > ocamlfind or whatevere else? > CPAN, APT, and other approaches work because someon set up an > official or de-facto-official archive (Well, APT also support other > repositories, but official one are the most used and trusted ...). What about a Central OCaml Archive (with a nice acronym; or simply a centralized list of URLs) and some conventions about namespaces ? If it is impossible to manage such a central repository, an intermediate solution would be to provide explicitly URLs for findlib-dependencies. > 3) ocaml packages are usually distributed as source packages and we have > not a standardized way to build and install them, the success of > CPAN, APT, are due to the facts that _or_ the distribution is in > binary form with standardadized file system sructure _or_ the > distribution is in source form with standardized compilation and > installation procedure A standardized compilation and installation procedure would be great, indeed. ------------------- 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