From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6DD657F0A3 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:06:23 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,442,1437429600"; d="scan'208";a="175482248" Received: from wencory.loria.fr (HELO [152.81.3.42]) ([152.81.3.42]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 31 Aug 2015 18:06:23 +0200 To: Gabriel Scherer References: <1C02B1E2-D17D-4008-998E-B17048C62DFA@gmail.com> Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" From: =?UTF-8?Q?St=c3=a9phane_Glondu?= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55E47B7E.6050901@glondu.net> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:06:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really Le 27/08/2015 10:17, Gabriel Scherer a écrit : > Depending on external libraries used to be a problem when there was no > consensus on OCaml packaging (no longer than a few years ago people > where reluctant to even use ocamlfind). We now have a reasonable > consensus on a packaging story, and installing third-party libraries > has never been as easy as it is today -- except on Windows, meh. > I think you should embrace the idea of depending on software outside > the OCaml distribution. Depending on a multitude of external libraries makes packaging more difficult. I am talking about "system" packaging (deb, rpm...) here, not OPAM. And "install OPAM first" is not a very satisfactory way of installing some software written in OCaml in a stable environment. Cheers, -- Stéphane