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

[John M. S. <sk...@oz...>]

>> 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.

I think we should be careful here. In my opinion Boost went entirely

off the rails by chosing a special make tool, and then modifying
that so that to actually build boost became a total nightmare.

They failed to follow my recommendation:-)

I recommended Python script as the build tool, and they
thought it was 'too heavy' which of course turned out
to be a joke compared to having to download and build
a custom tool -- which needed constant modification.

I personally DESPISE make and friends, I think they're
total garbage. While they automate some tasks nicely,
trying to fool make into doing all the build/test/install
tasks correctly requires considerably expertise and hackery.

Python, on the other hand, is a full scale programming language.

Well, we should probably use ocaml script instead :-)




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