Re: [Caml-list] We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really

[Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>]

On 08/31/2015 06:06 PM, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> 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.

Why not?

In my experience, opam installs are quite reproducible.
You can even specify the version number you want to install.

The only problem I see is that opam install things in a user's home 
directory, which is not what you want for a system-wise installation of 
a software/library.

-- 
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"