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

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello martindeme...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Gerd Stolpmann i...@gerd-stolpmann.de 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.

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

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp dra-n...@metastack.com 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

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 issue becomes

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

2011-12-15 Thread Martin DeMello
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Adrien camarade...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp dra-n...@metastack.com 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

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 andrej.ba...@andrej.com 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

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 i...@gerd-stolpmann.de 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

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

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello martindeme...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Adrien camarade...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp dra-n...@metastack.com wrote: Any particular reason why the GnuWin32 project doesn't already fulfil this requirement

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

2011-12-15 Thread Martin DeMello
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Adrien camarade...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello martindeme...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-12-15 Thread Adrien
On 14/12/2011, Alain Frisch al...@frisch.fr 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

[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,

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 again want to mention