glynn@info.ucl.ac.be (Kevin Glynn) writes:
> 1. It seems that pkg files are pickles, and therefore mogul packages
> created with 1.2.x can't be loaded from mozart 1.3.0.
That's right. The only reason I am still using Oz pickles instead of
my own simple and portable pickle format is compression. What is
needed is to extend Open with support for the zlib library (that we
use anyway for un/pickling).
> 2. It was suggested on the users list that ozmake.exe be included in
> the mozart distribution.
It is available in the distribution of the standard library. All that
is needed is to install it. However, I absolutely do not want to add
things in the core. Quite the opposite actually. I have discussed it
before (the plan for restructuration was developed together with
Leif). Our current configure/build setup makes things unbelievably
complicated and hard to maintain. Instead, we should decompose our
big fat distro into components and adopt a staged approach with
partial install. If we do this, then it makes sense to bring ozmake
into the picture very early and use it to build the non core
components.
I don't think we should attempt the restructuration before the 1.3.0
release. I'd be very interested in getting it going afterwards
though.
Cheers,
-- Denys Duchier - Équipe Calligramme - LORIA, Nancy, France - Please send submissions to hackers@mozart-oz.org and administriva mail to hackers-request@mozart-oz.org. The Mozart Oz web site is at http://www.mozart-oz.org/.