Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Win-builds 1.5.0 - fully-bootstrapped free software distribution for Windows

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, Christoph Höger wrote:
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> Interesting!
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> Maybe this is a stupid question but given that you use OCaml for
> implementing and there is still no way to distribute opam packages for
> windows, could you not package ocaml/opam for your distribution and
> this way import all ocaml packages at once?

I want to make an ocaml cross-compiler actually available in win-builds
for people to use. There is already one in win-builds but it's not built
by default as it has too many (potential) quirks.

In the near future I'll work again on making cross-compilation upstream
for the ocaml compiler. Working on win-builds has also convinced me that
being able to cross-compile a compiler would be useful too. That would
make it possible to have a package that provides an ocaml compiler that
runs on Windows and targets Windows.

As far as opam is concerned, I currently don't intend to do anything
specific for it. The reason is that there's already a lot to do on
things that are not specific to opam and it's not sensible to expand my
TODO list. :) 
Another thing to note is that win-builds provides binary packages and
that doesn't match the usual opam usage. In any case, packages for ocaml
libraries and tools is planned and wished but a realistic schedule would
be in 6 months or more (time to get better ocaml cross-compiler, to test
it and to make more packages).

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Adrien Nader