Re: Greetings!
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:41:10PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > > 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?
or maybe libocaml-x11 ?
> > > 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.
Package them first, then later one we can go for the others.
Georges Mariano was maintaining a list of potential ocaml packages. so we can
add it, better yet would be a dynamic web page where you can register and
comment on various packages.
> 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.
Is this not included in ocaml ? It would be really usefull. Is it uptodate
with ocaml 3.00 ? what does the author say about it ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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