Re: [Caml-list] "Let"-less syntax for coreML

[Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>]

On 01/04/2012 08:30 AM, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote:
>     I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCaml is
>     not to tweak around with language design.  It's to improve the
>     library packaging situation.
>
> Then just do it.


I have, and the result is odb[1].  It backends with oasis-db[2], meaning 
if you upload your oasis package, it will be installable via odb, 
including deps.  After finding out about barbra[3], a similar project 
with a different starting point, I stole many of their good ideas, and 
now have support for a local `packages` file that provides metadata for 
packages not available through oasis-db.  This packages file allows 
installation of packages available from arbitrary URLs (anything 
curl-able), git, svn, cvs, hg, darcs, as well as local directories.

For a large number of package examples (plus non-examples of packages 
that fail to auto-install through make/omake/oasis), look here: 
https://github.com/thelema/odb/blob/master/packages

Contributions of additional packages welcome, fixes to the programs that 
don't auto-install (See the bottom half of the packages file) are doubly 
welcome.

E.


[1] https://github.com/thelema/odb
[2] http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/oasis-db.html and 
http://oasis.ocamlcore.org/dev/odb/
[3] still in stealth mode, maybe I shouldn't have stolen their thunder 
by mentioning them