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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR, 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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0404BC37 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:09:42 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmcEAKOxn0pQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACbPQEBFiS/S4QbBYFY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,326,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33683891" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 03 Sep 2009 21:09:27 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjHgO-0006hp-5C for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:09:20 +0200 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:09:20 +0200 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:09:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: Why don't you use batteries? Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 19:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-11 (Linux) Sender: news X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 dependencies:01 camlp:01 edgar:98 1.0:98 wrote:01 compile:01 executables:01 seems:03 install:05 devel:06 uses:07 quite:08 batteries:91 batteries:91 On 03-09-2009, Edgar Friendly wrote: > It seems like batteries' adoption isn't quite as thorough as expected. > We in the batteries devel team would love to know why you don't use > batteries. Here's some of our guesses: > > 1) I *do* use batteries > 2) It's not 1.0 yet, I'll try it then > 3) It makes my executables too big > 4) It's too hard to install (dependencies, godi failures) > 5) It's difficult to compile against > 6) It doesn't work on my platform > 7) It uses camlp4 > 8) Other (please explain) > I hope to use Batteries, when I will have enough time to learn it ! I think it is a great thing to have it. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall