On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Adrien <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This seems better-maintained: >> >> https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki >> >> At the very least it would be a good starting point. > > I had never heard of that one before and asked people about it. It turns out > it's a collection of binaries already available in other places. That makes > it both uninteresting and interesting. > > It's annoying because it will have all the bugs the other have. > > It's good because it saves work and you don't have to go hunt for various > binaries everywhere: you have them in a single place. > > I think these are definitely fine for programs. Shell scripting shouldn't be > an issue. Libraries of projects like gnuwin32 are probably not as good > however. It shouldn't be an issue to bundle the programs if needed. :-)
My mistake, I had the impression from the README that they were maintaining and compiling all those utilities themselves. Also, looking more closely at it, they use bash 2.03, so they clearly aren't trying to keep current. martin -- 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
