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Date: | 2007-04-02 (19:02) |
From: | Daniel_Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@e...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Installation of libraries with ocamlbuild |
Le 2 avr. 07 ŕ 20:11, skaller a écrit : > The caml development team alone does not have the expertise > to develop such a model in isolation: it requires a discussion > and feedback from the wider community. Maybe, maybe not. I find it very usefull they want to tackle this problem, so I'd like to encourage them instead of dismissing the idea. > It is also not viable on multi-user systems, where the admin > installs Ocaml, but users install libraries. Agreed. You'd need some kind of lookup PATH. > I personally think the proper solution is actually SOURCE not binary. > That is, you install sources .. never binaries. Ocamlbuild uses a > nominated cache directory for the binaries, and rebuilds automatically > any libraries required .. including when Ocaml itself is upgraded. This could be the sketch an interesting solution. Daniel