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 NAA25022; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:36:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA25013 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:36:00 +0200 (MET DST) 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 AAA12309 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:55:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dsf.foxthompson.net (adsl-63-196-84-93.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [63.196.84.93]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f68MtjX03699 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:55:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dsf@localhost) by dsf.foxthompson.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f68MtWQ10619; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:55:32 -0700 From: dsf@foxthompson.net To: John Max Skaller Cc: Markus Mottl , Miles Egan , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml libs as rpms and ocaml-gd References: <20010705221004.A94629@caddr.com> <20010706104545.B5704@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <3B47959F.36D94B43@ozemail.com.au> Date: 08 Jul 2001 15:55:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3B47959F.36D94B43@ozemail.com.au> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk John Max Skaller writes: > Markus Mottl wrote: > > > What do the CDK-maintainers > > think? Such a contribution would surely be very helpful for Linux-users > > who don't want to build things from source. > > There's a difference though: building C/C++ is complex > and error prone. Building Ocaml code is a breeze, at least > for the optimising compiler. Only if you've got an ocaml compiler and a C compiler. In any case, building software from source is invariably more difficult than not building it. Maybe I'm getting old, but I certainly don't want to build any software I could install in binary form. ------------------- 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