Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Version 1.0?

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

> I tried to do that once and users hated it :-)
> They wanted a plain old tarball. Still, software like Internet
> Explorer and Redhat Linux use this idea, but I suspect
> it would be more useful if it could update multiple packages,
> not just Extlib.
[...]
> You can make an executable which is put in, say
[...]
> extlib --help --version --test

This is directly putting us back into the COAN thread.
Multiple packages, dependencies, patches, install , compile , link , update.
A lot of things to do , in a portable way.

Right now some people from the Caml team and around have been talking about
such a tool. I might start implementing such a thing quite soon, based on
the statement they made and on several long talks I already have about it
with Jacques Garrigue. I'll keep informed people on this list of further
advances.

Nicolas Cannasse