[Dune-devel] Request about the /usr/bin/dune filename

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Dear Andreas, Oliver,

Thanks very much for this; we really appreciate it from OCaml.  Let us know if there’s anything we can do from our end to ensure there is no confusion about our use of /usr/bin/dune and your /usr/bin/duneproject invocations for your build system.

best,
Anil

> On 22 Jan 2019, at 12:02, Dedner, Andreas <A.S.Dedner at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'm fine with this as well
> Andreas
> From: Dune-devel <dune-devel-bounces at lists.dune-project.org> on behalf of Oliver Sander <oliver.sander at tu-dresden.de>
> Sent: 22 January 2019 11:45:42
> To: dune-devel at lists.dune-project.org; anil at recoil.org; jeremie at dimino.org
> Subject: Re: [Dune-devel] Request about the /usr/bin/dune filename
>  
> > I tend to agree with Ansgar here.  Unless one of the other developers comes up
> > with a good reason why we should reserve those names.
> 
> I don't see us needing those names in the nearer future.  As far as I am concerned
> we can give them up.
> 
> > I do find it unfortunate however that this clash has to happen with a
> > buildsystem -- after all, everything we provide under /usr/bin has to do with
> > our buildsystem.  There is a good chance of confusion as to which buildsystem
> > exactly /usr/bin/duneproject will create a skeleton project for. 
> 
> <humour> ... unless we rewrite our code to use ocaml and the dune build system</humour>
> 
> --
> Oliver

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