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 QAA11773; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:53:24 +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 QAA11765 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:53:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i38EsFjq008777 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:54:16 +0200 Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (unknown [192.168.0.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com", Issuer "excelhustler.com" (not verified)) by gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5E9E0140; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:53:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02B45C006; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:53:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wile.internal.excelhustler.com (wile.internal.excelhustler.com [192.168.1.34]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8694D5C005; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:53:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wile.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CEDA49004; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:53:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:53:21 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: OCaml's Cathedral & Bazaar (was Re: [Caml-list] Completeness of "Unix" run-time library) Message-ID: <20040408145321.GA30763@excelhustler.com> References: <4072E7C4.5090008@socialtools.net> <20040407230810.619.qmail@web41205.mail.yahoo.com> <20040408134847.GE29195@excelhustler.com> <20040408140650.GA31763@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040408140650.GA31763@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Scanned-By: clamscan at chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml's:01 caml-list:01 run-time:01 2004:99 2004:99 wrappers:01 wrappers:01 ocamlodbc:01 generic:01 ocamlodbc:01 real-world:01 inaccurate:01 posix:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 144 On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:06:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:48:47AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > * OCaml has no library for IMAP. > > * Time calculations and formatting are also largely missing. > > Actually there are some of Perl libraries that can be used for this, > and the OCaml wrappers around the time libraries are already done. Where can I find those wrappers? > > * OCamlDBI supports only two database servers. OcamlODBC supports many > > more through the system's ODBC support, but loads the entire result > > set into memory before handing it over to the user, which makes it > > unusable for many serious projects. > > Sure. Needs money and/or time. OCamlDBI tries to be a generic layer, > but the specific database drivers don't appear by magic. I'm more > than willing to integrate any straight away, and actually they're not > too hard to write. I know, and agree, and BTW have found OcamlDBI to have come a long way in a very short time. It is now a great tool for working with my PostgreSQL server, and I appreciate the hard work that went into making it that. I know too that OcamlDBI supports OcamlODBC, but it is unfortunately still limited by the OcamlODBC limitations. I'm not trying to cast blame anywhere, I'm just saying that I think that "Ocaml has a robust set of tools for real-world uses" is inaccurate. To be sure, databases are probably a small part of that vs. the string, list, and POSIX problems. -- John ------------------- 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