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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 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 E299EBC69 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:00:43 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJ8BZkfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACQBQEBAQgKKZkg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,176,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="6914729" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 17 Dec 2007 14:00:43 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBHD0faf025581 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:00:43 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJ8BZkfC2fJanmdsb2JhbACQBQEBAQEHBAYpmSA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,176,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="5277421" Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.90]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 17 Dec 2007 14:00:40 +0100 Received: from orion.metastack.com ([80.177.38.218]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.67) id 1J4FaK-000Nwe-7e for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:00:40 +0000 Received: from countertenor (82-34-66-28.cable.ubr02.gill.blueyonder.co.uk [82.34.66.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by orion.metastack.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lBHCpWOW010717 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:51:32 GMT From: "David Allsopp" To: "'caml-list'" References: <1197848427.6258.42.camel@Blefuscu> <1197892563-sup-1822@ausone.inria.fr> Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Installing libraries ? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:00:36 -0000 Organization: MetaStack Solutions Ltd. Message-ID: <001101c840ac$d16ccc20$6402a8c0@countertenor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-Reply-To: <1197892563-sup-1822@ausone.inria.fr> thread-index: AchAoxLXGvSGSf8bSv6gyyl0OYekJgACK0Cw X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 172.16.28.218 X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 476672F9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; vastly:01 ocamlfind:01 ocaml:01 distro:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 btw:03 codebase:96 roadmap:03 wheel:94 install:05 dec:05 xavier:06 nicolas:08 Nicolas Pouillard wrote: >Excerpts from david.teller's message of Mon Dec 17 00:40:27 +0100 2007: >> Hi, >Hi, > > [...] > >> Can OCamlBuild install libraries, btw ? > >Not yet. I think that ocamlbuild will treat installation one day. Hang on a sec, if installation of libraries is on the ocamlbuild roadmap, surely when that time comes your time will be vastly better spent incorporating ocamlfind into the official OCaml distro instead? I'm aware that this sort of thing has been asked for before (and Xavier and others have given very good support-based reasons for why contributions to the OCaml codebase are kept to a minimum which I fully respect) but why waste your time reinventing a very well-constructed wheel? Do you have some amazing new installation features in mind (you may, of course!)? Just my 2p... David