Re: [Caml-list] Re: what's in the future for ocamlbuild?

["Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>]

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Excerpts from Sylvain Le Gall's message of Wed Mar 12 10:31:36 +0100 2008:
> Hello,
Hello,

> On 12-03-2008, Erick Tryzelaar <idadesub@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > - I love that ocamlbuild is bundled with ocaml as then it's one less
> > dependency for someone building an ocaml package, but I don't like how
> > it then ties it's release to ocaml releases. First, since new versions
> > of ocaml aren't really publicly planned, it's hard to know when a
> > feature might be added to ocamlbuild. Second, we can't use ocamlbuild
> > to build a system if the system compiler isn't 3.10. I don't think
> > ocamlbuild actually uses anything from 3.10. So, it would be nice if
> > there was also a separate release from ocaml that we could install
> > along side of an older ocaml install.
> >
> 
> Indeed, i would have prefer to have ocamlbuild outside ocaml compiler
> package. The reason for ocamlbuild in OCaml is to solve the complex
> scheme to build camlp4 (as far as i can remember). This is unfortunate,
> but we can't blame INRIA to build a tool and test it against its more
> complex compilation scheme.
> 
> > - A way for the community to add support for other languages. It may
> > not make sense to code in the OCaml tree support for things like Java
> > or the QT library. It also might not really be appropriate to be done
> > through OSR either.
> >
> > - ocamlbuild currently can't run on windows's cmd.exe, which is a
> > shame. This bug report suggests that it's not planned on changing
> > either:
> >
> > http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4388
> >
> 
> I don't think INRIA team are against accepting your patches, if it fits
> correctly in OCaml. Most of the time, the first step is to provide a
> patch... If you have the time to correct this problem on your own, i
> think INRIA team will happily integrate your patch.

Talking  for  my parts (camlp4 and ocamlbuild), patches are welcome. Of course
they  are  subject  to  be  rejected  if  they  don't  fits  our  requirements
(including that INRIA is the copyright holder).

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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