From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by c5ff346549e7 (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4187E5D5 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:11:37 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,285,1539640800"; d="scan'208";a="357494663" Received: from sympa.inria.fr ([193.51.193.213]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Nov 2018 07:11:34 +0100 Received: by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 20132) id BC239824CF; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:11:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0BB2824CF for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:11:23 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,285,1539640800"; d="scan'208";a="357494605" Received: from abo-246-123-68.mrs.modulonet.fr (HELO hadrien) ([85.68.123.246]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 27 Nov 2018 07:11:23 +0100 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:11:23 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: SP cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <2d08a110-3c51-9251-40e8-15ff3e57b5ee@orbitalfox.eu> Message-ID: References: <20181126101448.3ee5jgz4c6ulsbbr@first.in-berlin.de> <2d08a110-3c51-9251-40e8-15ff3e57b5ee@orbitalfox.eu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh of them? Reply-To: Julia Lawall X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Sequence: 17157 Errors-to: caml-list-owner@inria.fr Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: caml-list-request@inria.fr X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018, SP wrote: > On 26/11/2018 21:29, Julia Lawall wrote: > > The problem is how many programming languages exist today. Is it really > > realistic to expect users to learn how to use a different package manager > > for all of them? > Users of software written in OCaml don't need to install any compilers, OPAM, etc, since OCaml can be compiled into a static binary, which will depend on libraries found in most Linux environments. > > Now if you are talking about developers needing to get tool-chains and libraries.. there is no clear answer. From different perspectives, the ideal answer is different. Actually, I typically just post fixes to github and ask people to download and compile the new version. It's more practical than making a release and binaries for each small change. julia > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list > Forum: https://discuss.ocaml.org/ > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list Forum: https://discuss.ocaml.org/ Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs