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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 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 F2E8EBBC1 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:07 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGxDskfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQPAEBAQgKKZwp X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,345,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7258130" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2008 10:15:07 +0100 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m1D9F736003123 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:07 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGxDskfBMVMPh2dsb2JhbACQPAEBAQgEBimcKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,345,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8012403" Received: from kabis.univ-orleans.fr (HELO ka.univ-orleans.fr) ([193.49.83.15]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2008 10:15:07 +0100 Received: from smtps.univ-orleans.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ka.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A90C12B22A; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from [193.49.89.10] (delta.univ-orleans.fr [193.49.89.10]) by smtps.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E3836E5B; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Ports-like package management system From: David Teller To: Berke Durak Cc: Caml-list List In-Reply-To: <479F0664.2070706@exalead.com> References: <479F0664.2070706@exalead.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:45:53 +0100 Message-Id: <1202892353.6427.4.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47B2B51B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; univ-orleans:01 cheers:01 0100,:01 berke:01 durak:01 ocaml:01 univ-orleans:01 lifo:01 drafting:98 edos:98 liquidations:98 wrote:01 volunteers:01 caml-list:01 define:02 Ok, I see numerous interesting ideas (I particularly like the idea of ocamlbuild extended with the ability to download source code from repositories), but no clear conclusion. Is there anything clear enough to go forward ? Because if there is, we can start drafting volunteers to finalize specifications and/or work on the implementation. Cheers, David On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 11:56 +0100, Berke Durak wrote: > Hello, > > Following Markus's message, discussions with Nicolas Pouillard and > Sylvain Le Gall and others, and of course my previous work in the EDOS > project, here are some thoughts about package management systems > (PMSs) for Ocaml. [ ... ] > So basically I propose that we improve ocamlbuild to allow for > multiple plugin files (using dynamic loading) and use that to define a > BSD ports-like system targeted at developers. -- David Teller Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations.