OCaml ExtLib

Wouldn't this go against the "Ocaml source only" (unwritten, unofficial?)
policy of ExtLib?  As it is, code using ExtLib will work on both Windows and
Unix.  If we were to extend Unix, would this portability be broken easily?

Janne

On 11/9/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I use ExtLib specifically for ExtSting and ExtList but now and
> then find there are standard POSIX functions that I would like to
> use that aren't available in the standard Ocaml Unix module.
>
> The most recent missing function was chroot, but I'm sure I've
> come across others.
>
> Is there any interest in adding an ExtUnix module?
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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Janne Hellsten wrote:

> Wouldn't this go against the "Ocaml source only" (unwritten, unofficial?)
> policy of ExtLib?

Sorry, I wasn't aware of any succh policy.

I also didn't realise that that chroot is not actually part of POSIX.

> As it is, code using ExtLib will work on both Windows and
> Unix.  If we were to extend Unix, would this portability be broken easily?

It should work on most Unices including Mac OSX. What else is there? :-)
 
Erik
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> The most recent missing function was chroot, but I'm sure I've
> come across others.

Hey Erik,

Maybe it's different on a Mac, but my Linux version of OCaml does provide 
Unix.chroot.

There is still some missing functionality that would not need 
C-dependency: the Filename module. Specifically, it ought to provide 
functions for splitting extensions (not just chopping them), 
cross-platform path normalization, absolute/relative conversion, globbing, 
recursive walking, and convenience functions for the more common stat 
tests (size, modification times, etc). IMHO. =)

Dave

Dave Benjamin wrote:

> Maybe it's different on a Mac, but my Linux version of OCaml does provide 
> Unix.chroot.

You're right. I don't know what went wrong when I was looking for
it. Probably bad fingers.

> There is still some missing functionality that would not need 
> C-dependency: the Filename module. Specifically, it ought to provide 
> functions for splitting extensions (not just chopping them), 
> cross-platform path normalization, absolute/relative conversion, globbing, 
> recursive walking, and convenience functions for the more common stat 
> tests (size, modification times, etc). IMHO. =)

Yep, I have a small modules that does some of those things. I carry it
from project to project but it would be much better in a library.

Erk
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