Hi, 2012/7/13 Adrien <camarade...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I'm mentionning that a bit in advance but I've resumed my work for > yypkg (package manager that works on and for windows) and its > packages, and I'll be making a more formal announcement in a few days. > > I've added functions to yypkg and I've reworked packages. Currently, I > have packages for binutils, mingw-w64 headers+crt, cross gcc from > linux to i686-w64-mingw32, zlib, xz, win-iconv, gettext, libjpeg, > expat, and soon freetype, fontconfig, libpng, and then lua. While this > may not seem much, take into account that I've started this run of > packages only a few days ago. > > I don't currently provide a native compiler (i.e. running on windows) > but this should be fairly easy to do. I'm not trying to make it > possible to build packages on windows however: only cross-compiling > (both for safety and security, and simplicity). > > Of course, the binary packages are re-usable outside of yypkg. > > There are no ocaml packages currently (this will take some time, > mostly because of the need to cross-compile) > > I'm mentionning this in order to avoid wasted duplicated efforts. >
My take on that: diversity should be a good things and given the number of potential bugs, this is better to have more than one way to build stuff. What is a "wasted" duplicated effort is to not take into consideration integration of your system with another (e.g. prevent GODI to work with yypkg). I think at best we should work alltogether toward a good long term solution that will work on Windows. GODI is a good starting point because it has already a pretty big number of packages and that I already use it on other platform in my CI system (and it is very useful for testing/releasing). As I see yypkg, I think you should focus to provide: 1. binary C packages (iconv, gettext and so on) 2. OCaml + findlib 3. be compatible with GODI binary packages ? 1. don't really overlap with GODI and can help GODI to build C related packages. 2. overlap BUT helps project like odb.ml 3. is optional but would provide a huge bunch of OCaml packages on the long term. What do you think about this plan ? Cheers Sylvain > PS: use a gcc >= 4.7.0 since *-w64-mingw32 have a different ABI for > C++ starting with it and sooner or later, there will be a C++ library > somewhere and it'll be annoying to switch. (I use a gcc 4.7.1 btw) > > -- > Adrien Nader _______________________________________________ Godi-list mailing list Godi-list@ocaml-programming.de https://godirepo.camlcity.org/mailman/listinfo/godi-list
