From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 291027F6CB for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:01:45 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of adrien@notk.org) identity=pra; client-ip=91.121.71.147; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="adrien@notk.org"; x-sender="adrien@notk.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of adrien@notk.org designates 91.121.71.147 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=91.121.71.147; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="adrien@notk.org"; x-sender="adrien@notk.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@nautica.notk.org) identity=helo; client-ip=91.121.71.147; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="adrien@notk.org"; x-sender="postmaster@nautica.notk.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CXBQDP3MhU/5NHeVtagwaEK8dIAoEXQwEBAQEBfYQNAQUjDwFGEAsYAgIFEw4CAg8FGB0BEzGIEr97lSMBAQEBBgEBAQEBHYEhjlcHgmgugRMFmA4BgRWNaoM9IoIBHRSBPT2CcwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0CXBQDP3MhU/5NHeVtagwaEK8dIAoEXQwEBAQEBfYQNAQUjDwFGEAsYAgIFEw4CAg8FGB0BEzGIEr97lSMBAQEBBgEBAQEBHYEhjlcHgmgugRMFmA4BgRWNaoM9IoIBHRSBPT2CcwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,480,1418079600"; d="scan'208";a="97992654" Received: from nautica.notk.org ([91.121.71.147]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 28 Jan 2015 14:01:44 +0100 Received: by nautica.notk.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id AC159C009; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:01:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:01:43 +0100 From: Adrien Nader To: Christoph =?utf-8?B?SMO2Z2Vy?= Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <20150128130143.GA28305@notk.org> References: <20150128104458.GC5338@notk.org> <54C8C1F8.8040803@tu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <54C8C1F8.8040803@tu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Win-builds 1.5.0 - fully-bootstrapped free software distribution for Windows On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, Christoph Höger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Interesting! > > 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). -- Adrien Nader