From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q1DB29wD000673 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:02:09 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As0BAJrsOE/RVdS2kGdsb2JhbABDhRCZcYhNAYglCCIBAQEBCQkNBxQEI4FyAQEBAwESAg8dAS0LAQMBCwEFBQQHAxcdAgIhARIBBQEKEgYTEhCHWgmcEQqLJoM7hDiJMgIFC4g5gzAuJAEFB4NSICoPAgYFGAgJgh+BFgSCXJJWh2aDKoMVPYFTgQGBLw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,411,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="143993371" Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 13 Feb 2012 12:02:03 +0100 Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so5620308wib.27 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:02:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=XGX4/Lr8j6v/VpHPKZqtk+rEp9DH8lbZfa18uxOOY84=; b=obv+XBO9umBZ59SIgis4t5Gt7oYefHorXHCeKJcjx8O2VIo5r3GM7K1K/1NEPOTuNe zEyWSxHRRG1vpU22Z/TEZkkqmUBVc6UdmRP7kN7f5cTtMHA4Ed2Zc0DaO6ZmLroOjCeG Q3mMJBaNNQTvQP81ynAVUYAR2TZroG6cgKGq0= Received: by 10.181.11.231 with SMTP id el7mr13345652wid.0.1329130923369; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:02:03 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: arnaud.spiwack@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.196.141 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:01:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F36D930.70008@gmail.com> References: <4F36D930.70008@gmail.com> From: Arnaud Spiwack Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:01:23 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Gtlzl8oU5FNkbszuHEdCGeZV48Y Message-ID: To: Edgar Friendly Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d043891918c264804b8d6686d X-Validation-by: aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Package installation assumptions made by odb --f46d043891918c264804b8d6686d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 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 > > 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. > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/**wws/info/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/**ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-**bugs > > --f46d043891918c264804b8d6686d Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I see an immediate problem with packages that install several executable fi= les (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 impor= tant limitation.

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Arnaud Spiwack

On 11 February 2= 012 22:10, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
odb is a simple ocaml program to install ocaml packages with dependencies. = =C2=A0I've written a document on the assumptions it makes of the packag= es it's to install. =C2=A0By 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/blo= b/master/guidelines.md

Thank you for any feedback. =C2=A0Please bear in mind that odb is meant to = be simple, so the complexity of configuring, building and installing any pa= ckages is expected to be in that package's build system, and not odb it= self.

E.

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