On Fri 16 Dec 2011 01:39:19 PM CET, Alain Frisch wrote:
A few points:
1. It would be useful to have a completely standalone binary
distribution of ocaml (with ocamlopt) under Windows. This can be
achieved either with little development efforts by extracting the
minimal needed subset of an mingw toolchain (an assembler, a linker,
some libraries and object files to link the main program); or with a
little bit more effort, by avoiding the need for an external toolchain
altogether. I insist: most users of OCaml under Windows won't need a C
compiler or Unix-like tools.
I'm considering doing that with the next version of my ocaml installer,
because this has been raised quite a few times on this list already.
2. Binary packages for OCaml libraries could be simple .zip files to
be extracted at a precise place (under the hierarchy created by the
OCaml binary installer itself); or maybe even Windows installers. If
installing a library only amounts to clicking on a link in a web page
and run the installer, it already makes the life of the casual user
much easier. We don't necessarily need a full-blown packaging system,
with dependency tracking, versioning, automatic download, etc.
Sure. I've discussed including findlib in the installer for windows [1]
so that people can easily install third-party libraries and have them
recognized.
Cheers,
jonathan
[1] https://github.com/protz/ocaml-installer/issues/4
-- Alain
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