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. > > 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.
Also, i have been toying with a libparted re-implmementation in ocaml, with filesystem/partition schemes plugins using dynlink, and maybe a graphical interface using lablgtk2. I don't know if it will be able to be small enough to fit into a small format installation media, like the on-floppy initrd or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther
