Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards a CPAN for OCaml?
On Dec 17, 2011, at 22:50 , Andrej Bauer wrote: I tried to use Oasis on one of my projects. I got stuck at the very begining. I am on MacOS, there is no binary installer, and no instructions for MacOS users. It told me a bunch of dependencies were unsatisfied when I tried to compile. It would be useful to write a line or two about how to satisfy all the dependecies, for example: If you are compiling Oasis from source, it is easiest to satisfy all the dependencies by installing them via GODI (if that's even true). Even better: provide a binary installer for MacOS. I created MacPorts for OASIS and its dependencies some time ago, you can install them using my Portfile repository at [1], the OASIS port is named caml-oasis. With kind regards, Andrej HTH, Benedikt [1] https://github.com/bmeurer/MacPorts -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards a CPAN for OCaml?
Am 18.12.2011 um 20:46 schrieb Ashish Agarwal agarwal1...@gmail.com: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meu...@googlemail.com wrote: the OASIS port is named caml-oasis. Please try to transition to the consistent name OCaml, a decision made at the 2011 OCaml Users Meeting. Using it in lower case is okay in certain contexts such as a package name, so here I would recommend ocaml-oasis. This is the prefix used within MacPorts to identify OCaml packages. I don't know why it isn't ocaml. -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards a CPAN for OCaml?
On 18 Dec 2011, at 20:01, Benedikt Meurer wrote: Am 18.12.2011 um 20:46 schrieb Ashish Agarwal agarwal1...@gmail.com: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meu...@googlemail.com wrote: the OASIS port is named caml-oasis. Please try to transition to the consistent name OCaml, a decision made at the 2011 OCaml Users Meeting. Using it in lower case is okay in certain contexts such as a package name, so here I would recommend ocaml-oasis. This is the prefix used within MacPorts to identify OCaml packages. I don't know why it isn't ocaml. It's just historical. I imported a bunch of OCaml packages into Macports a few years ago and preserved the prefix since it wasn't really worth the trouble to rename so many ports. I've actually given up on MacPorts and switched to Homebrew recently. They don't like importing libraries in Homebrew and defer that to the language-specific package manager. I'm hoping that odb will be sufficient to act as the lightweight library installer to complement Homebrew. The only annoying thing about installing OCaml from source these days is the 'compiler-libs' convention that most packages seem to do, but isn't really written down anywhere. Is there a Mantis bug about this one (I couldn't find one)? It's really helpful to get the Lwt toplevel working and isn't very obvious where those files come from without diving into the Debian packaging. I've got a small pull request to add it to the Homebrew package at any rate. Comment on it to give it some life and it might even get merged... https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/9002 -anil -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards a CPAN for OCaml?
I tried to use Oasis on one of my projects. I got stuck at the very begining. I am on MacOS, there is no binary installer, and no instructions for MacOS users. It told me a bunch of dependencies were unsatisfied when I tried to compile. It would be useful to write a line or two about how to satisfy all the dependecies, for example: If you are compiling Oasis from source, it is easiest to satisfy all the dependencies by installing them via GODI (if that's even true). Even better: provide a binary installer for MacOS. With kind regards, Andrej -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards a CPAN for OCaml?
I tried to use Oasis on one of my projects. I got stuck at the very begining. I am on MacOS, there is no binary installer, and no instructions for MacOS users. It told me a bunch of dependencies were unsatisfied when I tried to compile. Agreed. Installing the dependencies on osx is just too painful. But as I said before on this list, instead of providing binary installers, I think it would be much more productive for users and oasis devs to be able to bootstrap oasis provided with a raw ocaml install and a reasonably posix compliant unix system (let's pretend I didn't follow the discussion on ocaml for windows). Best, Daniel -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards a CPAN for OCaml?
On 12/17/2011 06:27 PM, Daniel Bünzli wrote: I tried to use Oasis on one of my projects. I got stuck at the very begining. I am on MacOS, there is no binary installer, and no instructions for MacOS users. It told me a bunch of dependencies were unsatisfied when I tried to compile. Agreed. Installing the dependencies on osx is just too painful. But as I said before on this list, instead of providing binary installers, I think it would be much more productive for users and oasis devs to be able to bootstrap oasis provided with a raw ocaml install and a reasonably posix compliant unix system (let's pretend I didn't follow the discussion on ocaml for windows). I also agree that a binary package is much less satisfactory anywhere with a compilation environment. I'd love to get a report on how well odb can be used on mac. Its second test of usefulness was being able to install oasis, which has a *ton* of deps. It passed this test a long time ago, and should install oasis just fine. If you have ocaml and findlib installed, odb should work for you. Of course, let me know via its bugtracker or #ocaml on IRC if you have any problems. E. -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
