Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Anyone see the need for extUnix?

[Erik de C. L. <mle...@me...>]

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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