From: Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
Cc: Caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:51 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0210141944010.16561-100000@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021014173931.GD10510@cs.unibo.it>
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 1) does we really need such a feature, aren't distribution born for such
> issues? (obviously I'm thinking about the Linux world here)
Well, Linux is not the center of the world (even of the Unix-world). There
are several OS, several distributions, and you're not always sys admin on
the system you're working on (or don't want to use root priveleges to
install an ocaml package).
> 2) if we really need such a feature (for example just to have
> transparent access to packages between different linux distributions
> or between linux and windows and mac and ... worlds) who is
> responsible to keep an archive of available package gettable via
> ocamlfind or whatevere else?
> CPAN, APT, and other approaches work because someon set up an
> official or de-facto-official archive (Well, APT also support other
> repositories, but official one are the most used and trusted ...).
What about a Central OCaml Archive (with a nice acronym; or simply a
centralized list of URLs) and some conventions about namespaces ?
If it is impossible to manage such a central repository, an intermediate
solution would be to provide explicitly URLs for findlib-dependencies.
> 3) ocaml packages are usually distributed as source packages and we have
> not a standardized way to build and install them, the success of
> CPAN, APT, are due to the facts that _or_ the distribution is in
> binary form with standardadized file system sructure _or_ the
> distribution is in source form with standardized compilation and
> installation procedure
A standardized compilation and installation procedure would be great,
indeed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-14 16:42 Alain Frisch
2002-10-14 17:39 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-14 17:59 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2002-10-14 18:16 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-14 20:38 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-14 21:07 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-14 22:44 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-10-15 4:42 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-15 4:53 ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15 5:15 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-15 5:25 ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15 5:41 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-15 6:34 ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15 5:02 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-15 5:04 ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15 5:08 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-17 17:57 ` Gleb N. Semenov
2002-10-15 11:21 ` Sign the packages (was Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd)) Tim Freeman
2002-10-15 11:59 ` Sven Luther
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