Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Ocaml indent?

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> It seems to me that the priority is the shadow of the standard library.
> For that, we already have a decomposition to follow, that of the
> standard library itself.  We need a name, a license, a compilation
> strategy, and an installation strategy

True,
I agree to concentrate first on ExtLib and then later discuss about the
OCaml web librairies repository

> For the name, somebody mentioned ExtLib. For the license, the argument
> has been made that we would be extending the standard library, and it
> would be much simpler to keep its license.  The obvious choices for the
> latter two are OCamlMakefile and findlib.

I'm one of the few Windows OCaml users, and findlib nor OCamlMake aren't
available on this platform. I wrote a tool sometime ago called "ocamake"
which is doing I think the same as OCamlMake.

It's a command line tool that take several ml / mli ( and others ) files =
as
input, call ocamldep and then compile the whole using ocamlc or ocamlopt.=
 It
has also an option to generate a Makefile that can be used as input for
either GNU Make or Microsoft NMAKE ( no more use of two separate Makefile
and Makefile.nt ).

I would of course be more than happy if the ExtLib community would like t=
o
use this tool as a standard. It has been roughly tested and the full OCam=
l
sourcefile is available at  http://tech.motion-twin.com . BTW, it only us=
e
the Unix OCaml library and don't rely on any non standard library.

Perhaps I could add an XML input that well enable it to load xml project
descriptors =E0 la Ant. What do you think about it ?

> To proceed, I suppose we could all upload our proposals for extensions =
to
> the StdLib modules, and vote about the appropriateness of each one.
> (I have no experience with distributed development, so I have no idea
> about the actual workings of this, but the Boost's guidelines can serve
> a starting point.)

Please read the proposal rules I've been writting in the "Goals & Process=
"
thread.

Nicolas Cannasse