From: "Mark D. Anderson" <mda@discerning.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The DLL-hell of O'Caml
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:28:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <026e01c1c8b5$32f11260$de5b6620@mdaxke> (raw)
If someone is going to work on this, I'd recommend they look even more deeply
at what perl and python do. It is more than just "download over http"; there
are also issues of versioning among others.
Some of the things both those languages have, to greater or lesser degrees:
- there is a web site for humans with search and list, such as search.cpan.org
- there is a command line which does search, list, and install, such as
"perl -MCPAN -e shell" or "ppm"
(ppm is more an activestate thing; CPAN.pm is distributed)
The install can deal with recursive dependencies if you want.
- the install utility can handle pure language packages, mixed language packages
with C source, and mixed language packages with pre-compiled C source
for one architecture (ppm is less flexible but simpler).
- really obscene things can be done with the perl "Inline" module: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Inline
- a single language install tree can handle a mixture of binary modules that vary by
architecture (i686-linux vs. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) or by language version (5.005 vs. 5.6).
pure-language modules can vary by language version.
This is useful for multiple developers sharing a single install over NFS, or for
a single developer that is trying out multiple configurations.
- the language runtime does best effort when a package is asked for by name,
taking the "best-fit" one;
this prevents you having to upgrade all packages just because the language is
upgraded.
-mda
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next reply other threads:[~2002-03-11 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-11 4:28 Mark D. Anderson [this message]
2002-03-11 7:12 ` Mattias Waldau
2002-03-11 12:15 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-03-12 0:19 ` Jeff Henrikson
2002-03-12 22:00 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-03-20 11:20 ` Fergus Henderson
2002-03-20 11:43 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-03-20 17:16 ` Fergus Henderson
2002-03-20 12:53 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-03-20 13:05 ` Johan Georg Granström
2002-03-20 13:40 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-03-20 19:46 ` Alain Frisch
2002-03-20 20:39 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-03-20 21:16 ` Markus Mottl
2002-03-21 9:07 ` Warp
2002-03-21 10:18 ` Christopher Quinn
2002-03-21 18:13 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-03-21 14:13 ` Jeff Henrikson
2002-03-21 14:13 ` [Caml-list] Type-safe DLL's with OO (was DLL-hell of O'Caml) Tim Freeman
2002-03-21 18:10 ` [Caml-list] The DLL-hell of O'Caml Xavier Leroy
2002-03-21 18:39 ` Sven
2002-03-21 19:22 ` james woodyatt
2002-03-21 19:43 ` Jeff Henrikson
2002-03-22 2:02 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-03-22 10:11 ` Warp
2002-03-21 18:50 ` Sven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-22 10:24 Dave Berry
2002-03-22 10:14 Dave Berry
2002-03-02 0:11 [Caml-list] troubleshooting problem related to garbage collection james woodyatt
2002-03-02 7:57 ` [Caml-list] The DLL-hell of O'Caml Mattias Waldau
2002-03-02 11:56 ` Markus Mottl
2002-03-02 21:40 ` Alexander V. Voinov
2002-03-02 14:46 ` Alain Frisch
2002-03-02 19:00 ` Chris Hecker
2002-03-02 19:42 ` Mattias Waldau
2002-03-02 22:41 ` Chris Hecker
2002-03-03 15:56 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-03-04 9:57 ` Sven
2002-03-04 12:20 ` Jacques Garrigue
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