Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild on Windows and bash vs. cmd

[Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:46:28 +0000
"Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com> wrote:

> Dear Yaron,
> 
> > I hate licenses.  
> 

:-)

> it is definitely a good source of income for lawyers, and I found it
> is worthwhile for a SW developer to take a 1 day course on the topic
> - it is a fairly surprising subject.
> 

Could you point to such a course? 


> I would think it would be best to triple license it under Apache + a
> verbatim copy of the current Ocamllib license (LGPL 2.1 with link
> exception) + "the current or any past license of Ocamllib ". The
> latter would make it easier for the Ocamllib team to change their
> license later. If this helps, I could ask our in house license
> lawyers for advice.
> 
> But I have no idea if there are, besides the license issues, other
> reasons for not having common modules. One is likely the different
> base library, but in this specific case it shouldn't be much of an
> issue.
> 
> 
> One technical note: I would implement in addition to processes
> defined by executables some simple built in standard processes, like
> cp, ln, cat, mkdir, tee (might be a combiner) and later maybe even
> sed, sort, wc, find. It doesn't help to have a portable shell
> environment, if you don't have portable core commands. Compiling "ln"
> for Windows is actually harder than compiling gcc or OCaml. Of cause
> it doesn't make sense to reimplement half of unix, but at least
> simple forms of those commands used in shell scripts every other line
> and which are just a few lines in OCaml would make sense.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael
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