RE: Greetings!
> > Efuns is a cool hack, but I'm not sure it will interest a lot of
> > people.
>
> but people using debian will have the posibility to have it
> installed, and maybe trough some fun stuff, they will become
> interrested in ocaml.
>
Yes. Plus the efuns source tarball includes a fairly nice X11 toolkit
(not as good as GTK perhaps from an ease-of-use standpoint, but a
good bare API to X11), an X11 server, and some module loading utilities.
So it should probably be split into a few packages.
How should such a library be named? libx11-ocaml, perhaps?
> > Note that there are also some cool libraries available there:
> > http://www.npc.de/ocaml/linkdb/
> > For instance:
> > - PCRE: Perl Compatibility Regular Expressions for OCaml
> > - markup : Validating XML parser
> > - OCamlODBC : ODBC interface for OCaml programs
> > - netclient : Client for HTTP/1.1 protocol
>
> lets package all of it.
>
Agreed. How should we divvy it up? I've already gotten some work
done on efuns:
efuns (editor)
libx11-ocaml (x11 library)
gmwm (window manager)
Who wants to tackle some of these others? The more libraries and
utilities are available, the better the acceptance and use will be.
Maybe the efuns module loader code as an ocaml utility? I'm not sure
how general-purpose it is yet. I believe it allows C programs to
load and run OCaml bytecode.
Regards,
-Brent
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