From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E50BBC1 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:55:11 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAyFskfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQPQEBAQgKKZxL X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,346,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7269156" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2008 14:55:11 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m1DDt5TP016192 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:55:10 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAEyFskdQW+UCn2dsb2JhbACQPQEBAQEBBgQGCQgYnEs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,346,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="22583124" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2008 14:55:10 +0100 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JPI4l-0005IX-0J for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:55:03 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:55:02 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: [OSR] Ports-like package management system Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <479F0664.2070706@exalead.com> <1202892353.6427.4.camel@Blefuscu> <47B2CAF8.1040208@exalead.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 (Debian) Sender: news X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47B2F6B9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 berke:01 durak:01 berke:01 durak:01 tarball:01 ocaml:01 humps:01 tarballs:01 dependencies:01 tarball:01 wrote:01 repository:03 somewhere:06 quite:08 On 13-02-2008, Berke Durak wrote: > Sylvain Le Gall a écrit : >> >> However, just storing tarball somewhere is not a Package Management >> System. > > It is not, but while we try to figure out what a reasonable system might be, > if you can set up a permanent repository for Ocaml code, that would > be already quite useful! Most links on the Humps are dead. For instance, > I can't find a copy of Baire. > Exactly my point, i think that the most agreed proposition is to have a kind of central place to store sources. This could be the first step (storing tarballs at a central place). This will help to "secure" dependencies by providing an alternate place to find tarball... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall