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From: Arnaud Spiwack <aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr>
To: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Package installation assumptions made by odb
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMoPVjfAhRwzY_MUpLOqUGwbg02J5XKJR4=KtW8vTRnqgq+HEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F36D930.70008@gmail.com>

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I see an immediate problem with packages that install several executable
files (for instance, Melt provides a library and a collection of tools,
none of them named melt, by the way). I haven't spent time looking more
than superficially into oasis or odb yet, but it strikes me as a possibly
important limitation.

--
Arnaud Spiwack

On 11 February 2012 22:10, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:

> odb is a simple ocaml program to install ocaml packages with dependencies.
>  I've written a document on the assumptions it makes of the packages it's
> to install.  By sharing this, I hope to influence library and application
> developers to use a standard interface for compiling their program.
>
> The details are here: https://github.com/thelema/**
> odb/blob/master/guidelines.md<https://github.com/thelema/odb/blob/master/guidelines.md>
>
> Thank you for any feedback.  Please bear in mind that odb is meant to be
> simple, so the complexity of configuring, building and installing any
> packages is expected to be in that package's build system, and not odb
> itself.
>
> E.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-11 21:10 Edgar Friendly
2012-02-13 11:01 ` Arnaud Spiwack [this message]
2012-02-13 13:04   ` Edgar Friendly
2012-02-13 13:39     ` Romain Bardou
2012-02-13 13:46       ` Török Edwin
2012-02-13 13:53       ` Edgar Friendly

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