Re: more ideas (Re: [Caml-list] how could the community help with Oasis-DB;) towards a CPAN for OCaml?

2011-12-15 Thread oliver
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:37:26PM +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 15:55 +0100 schrieb oliver: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:14:57PM +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, den 13.12.2011, 21:22 +0100 schrieb oliver: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > I ag

[Caml-list] REMINDER: Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2012): Call for Papers!

2011-12-15 Thread L inda Woods
Apologies for cross-postings.   Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues,  faculty members and postgraduate students.   CALL FOR PAPERS   ** Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2012), April 16-18, 2012, Dublin, Irel

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 14/12/2011, Alain Frisch wrote: > On 12/14/2011 04:49 PM, Adrien wrote: >> But windows actually has symlinks. Kind of. Starting with Vista and the >> corresponding NTFS version. But by default you need to be an administrator >> to use them, you can only create a limited number of symlink in a g

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Martin DeMello
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Adrien wrote: > On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello 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

Re: [Caml-list] About the "mingw" port of OCaml

2011-12-15 Thread Edgar Friendly
Reply inline On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, ygrek wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:34:55 -0500 > Edgar Friendly wrote: > > > Hmm, I wonder how much the community would benefit from automated > > testing of ocaml packages under a variety of environments. Batteries is > > definitely benefiting

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Adrien wrote: >> On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp wrote: >>> >>> Any particular reason why the GnuWin32 project doesn't already fulfil >>> this >>> requirement (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/)? >> >> It's not maintained well a

Re: [Caml-list] About the "mingw" port of OCaml

2011-12-15 Thread ygrek
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:34:55 -0500 Edgar Friendly wrote: > Hmm, I wonder how much the community would benefit from automated > testing of ocaml packages under a variety of environments. Batteries is > definitely benefiting from ygrek's jenkins/hudson server[1] (although it > must have stopped

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork

2011-12-15 Thread Jérôme Benoit
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:31:07 +0100 "Gerd Stolpmann" wrote: > > > I would like to comment on a tangential aspect of the rationale you > > gave: > > > >> Given that OCaml is such a nice language with a lot of useful > >> frameworks available, > >> it is too sad to see it loosing ground just because

Re: [Caml-list] Don't forget the user

2011-12-15 Thread Martin DeMello
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Andrej Bauer wrote: > Recent discussions on how to improve the Ocaml-on-windows situation > are very welcome, but I see a lot of tech-speak and little feeling for > the users, who care just about one thing: to have a click & install > distribution of Ocaml that ac

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Martin DeMello
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Adrien wrote: > On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp wrote: >> >> Any particular reason why the GnuWin32 project doesn't already fulfil this >> requirement (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/)? > > It's not maintained well and it's often quite dirty. This seems better-main

RE: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Gerd Stolpmann
Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 19:41 + schrieb David Allsopp: > Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 09:27 -0800 schrieb Aleksey Nogin: > > > On 14.12.2011 04:52, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > > > > > > I don't think you will be able to convince everybody - at this point > > > > the

Re: [Caml-list] Don't forget the user

2011-12-15 Thread Jonathan Protzenko
Hi Andrej, I would gladly welcome any patch for my ocaml-installer that allows one to build the self-contained environment you describe. Some people seem to have volunteered to help out; let them be assured that I will gladly review any patch they send. I'm just afraid it's a big task to do

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 14/12/2011, Alain Frisch wrote: > On 12/14/2011 02:37 PM, Adrien wrote: >> I don't think it would be possible to live without a C toolchain simply >> because we use C libraries all the time. > > It depends on who is "we". I can imagine that library developers still > need a C toolchain but rele

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp wrote: > Gerd Stolpmann wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 09:27 -0800 schrieb Aleksey Nogin: >> > On 14.12.2011 04:52, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: >> > >> > > I don't think you will be able to convince everybody - at this point >> > > the issue becomes political in some

Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Gerd Stolpmann > wrote: >> >> There could be an alternative: The "busybox approach". We could develop >> a toolkit that covers all the Unix commands we need for the existing >> build scripts. It would include easy things like