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 LAA01983; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:57:37 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00940 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:57:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from abel.swapping.umh.ac.be (nat2.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2JAvYHd016101 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:57:35 +0100 Received: from abel.swapping.umh.ac.be ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by abel.swapping.umh.ac.be with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4Hhd-0007UL-00; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:58:13 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:58:12 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20040319.115812.114355331.debian00@tiscali.be> To: "O'Caml Mailing List" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Structuring the Caml community From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: <20040319083631.GA951@first.in-berlin.de> <20040318103140.GA20448@redhat.com> <40599C38.3050903@baretta.com> <20040318183325.GD1233@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <4059E2BD.6060902@baretta.com> <20040319083631.GA951@first.in-berlin.de> Organization: None X-Spook: 9705 Samford Road halcon Maple CIDA LLNL quiche Blowpipe mindwar LABLINK ANZUS X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.61 on Emacs 21.3.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 troestler:01 tiscali:99 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 baretta:01 baretta:01 reuse:01 dependencies:01 facto:01 findlib:01 packagers:01 chris:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 215 Hi, Here is my grain of salt about this issue. On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, oliver@first.in-berlin.de (Oliver Bandel) wrote: > > "The community" [...] is not orgenized enough to set up such a website. On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Richard Jones wrote: > > [...] except to say that my company would be prepared to fund a > [virtual] server and put a little time into developing this repository. On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Alex Baretta wrote: > > a central repository would be cool, and my company, too, would help > finance it or staff it. Interested people please go ahead! Why not have two (or more) machines that are mirror of each other? Also, one could reuse the Savanah software so as to provide development support, forums, documentation,... -- the list of available Caml packages could automatically be computed from the projects. Moreover dependencies with other project could conveniently be generated from META (or other) files and be rendered on-line as links. On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Markus Mottl wrote: > > Some kind of package management in the spirit of GODI would be very > nice indeed, and I think that this should also become part of the > "Cathedral", because it would otherwise not take off easily. > Package management is such a basic and important tool that really > everybody using OCaml would need. I agree with Markus here. Not only coming with the standard distribution would make it the de facto standard but, what is more important, INRIA developers probably know more than anybody else about the various portability issues. Indeed I am not sure how well GODI or findlib work on M$ Win32 for example. Also, one needs to cooperate with Debian (or Redhat,...) packagers -- they have some experience and it would be good that the package system integrates well with their efforts. Finally, there should exist some minimal Makefile or such so that when one library binds to C/Fortran/... code, it is "easy" to do cross platform compilation. Lots of us I believe only have access to few of the platforms that OCaml supports ; tools and guidelines would be very helpful. My 2¢, ChriS ------------------- 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