From: dsf@foxthompson.net
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: Markus Mottl <markus@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at>,
Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml libs as rpms and ocaml-gd
Date: 08 Jul 2001 15:55:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lusng7ni8r.fsf@dsf.foxthompson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B47959F.36D94B43@ozemail.com.au>
John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Markus Mottl wrote:
>
> > What do the CDK-maintainers
> > think? Such a contribution would surely be very helpful for Linux-users
> > who don't want to build things from source.
>
> There's a difference though: building C/C++ is complex
> and error prone. Building Ocaml code is a breeze, at least
> for the optimising compiler.
Only if you've got an ocaml compiler and a C compiler. In any case,
building software from source is invariably more difficult than not
building it. Maybe I'm getting old, but I certainly don't want to
build any software I could install in binary form.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-06 5:10 Miles Egan
2001-07-06 8:45 ` Markus Mottl
2001-07-06 14:26 ` Miles Egan
2001-07-07 23:05 ` John Max Skaller
2001-07-08 22:55 ` dsf [this message]
2001-07-06 13:55 ` Shawn Wagner
2001-07-06 14:46 ` Miles Egan
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