From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA16797; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:32:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA16693 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:32:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.23]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9F5W6D18810; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:32:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24D320046C72F; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:32:00 +0200 Received: from iliana (80.14.69.186) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24B4A0043657A; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:32:00 +0200 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 181KSo-0000ez-00; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:41:54 +0200 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:41:54 +0200 To: Chris Hecker Cc: Sven LUTHER , Gerd Stolpmann , Pierre Weis , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd) Message-ID: <20021015054154.GA2512@iliana> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021014214720.0320a448@mail.d6.com> <20021014224457.GM1002@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20021014181602.GA2620@iliana> <200210142038.WAA05623@pauillac.inria.fr> <20021014210719.GA3682@iliana> <20021014224457.GM1002@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <4.3.2.7.2.20021014214720.0320a448@mail.d6.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20021014221300.0342f218@mail.d6.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021014221300.0342f218@mail.d6.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Sven LUTHER Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:25:51PM -0700, Chris Hecker wrote: > >But the -pack option is not yet standardized, and not used in much > >cases, it seems to me. > > It's brand new, so give it time (and we need to get it working on windows, It was in since 3.04, wasn't it ? > but that's close to solved now). Is there a problem with it that you're > implying, or just that it hasn't taken off yet? Just that it is not used yet. You know from previous threads that i strongly advocate its use for all libraries, including pervasives, the standard library. This is for namespace control, not distribution. > >> Of course, if something like apt would just work for us (on all > >platforms, > >> source and binary), then that would be excellent and we should just start > >> using it. > >it will never just work, it 'just works' on debian, because of the > >debian maintainers who do the work of making sure the packages work. > > No, I just meant could we use the apt executable and data formats and not > have to write any code that fetches files or checks dependencies and > whatnot? In other words, would it save time to try to use it, or is it > totally hard-coded to debian? Well, apple uses it (for darwin) so there should be no portability issues. But then, i would have done a ocaml reimplementation, which would allow to do some more advanced stuff, like checking for external dependencies, which are not packaged. This cannot be done with the standard dpkg/apt. > >I don't have time to work on this though :((( > > Me neither, at least not for a year. Same here. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners