On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:59:51PM -0800, David FOx wrote: > We have done several projects here using ocaml, because me and two other > senior engineers here have a long history with functional programming > languages. I wrote the back end of the Click-n-Run software warehouse > in ocaml. This takes the Debian repository and reprocesses all the > packages to generate the database information used by the front end (the > catalogue) and modifies the packages so that they fit into our > distribution, modifying and generating KDE menu entries and so forth. > This turns out to be a little more complicated than it first sounds, > because you have to modify the version numbers on the packages, and then > you have to modify all the equals dependencies, and so on and so forth. >
I'll be very interested in this code. Where can i have access to it ( even if it is dead code, i really be interested in reading -- and copying it ). > The other major use is in our new hardware detection system. I > basically did a literal translation of a lot of perl code we inherited, > which is my excuse why it is still pretty ugly. But it had to be > drop-in compatible. This version isn't available for download yet, but > it will be late in the year. There are ocaml components that manage the > boot loader, the PCI device mapping, and the X configuration. > Very promising... > There are also small programs that manage things like scanning the > system for mime types and building a mozilla configuration file. There > is also a build environment creator, similar to pbuilder. And I wrote a > little cgi program called jiffytask to turn bugzilla into more of a > project manager. So far the only ocaml code whose source you can access > from our website is lindowsos-mimetypes - search for it in our warehouse > and click on the specifications page for the link. It is completely > uninteresting, another translation job turning weird little xml files > into another big weird xml file, but it make Mozilla happy. The > detector will be available when our next release comes out. The > warehouse program is, unfortunately, retired. It is being rewritten by > others in (sniff) Perl. We regret this somewhat, but we didn't want to > push people into a language they weren't comfortable with. > I agree that it is very hard to see this beautifull langage being replaced by this ugly PERL ( :-> ). I think that is what we call freedom... All your program seems to be very promising, i am really interested in reading some part of your code, if you can. Kind regard Sylvain LE GALL
