From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D807CBC6C for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:09:26 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAHYRnEfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQKAEBAQgKKZo/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,256,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7289383" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Jan 2008 14:09:26 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0RD9Oj5021011 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:09:26 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAP8QnEfBMVMPh2dsb2JhbACQKAEBAQgKKZpC X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,256,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21852086" Received: from kabis.univ-orleans.fr (HELO ka.univ-orleans.fr) ([193.49.83.15]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0100 Received: from smtps.univ-orleans.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ka.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D58212AD6C for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:09:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (ras75-4-82-235-58-110.fbx.proxad.net [82.235.58.110]) by smtps.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5E736E5B for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:09:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: The OCaml Community (aka back from the Developer Days) From: David Teller To: OCaml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:09:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1201439362.6302.15.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 479C8284.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 univ-orleans:01 ocaml:01 tarball:01 camomile:01 lablgtk:01 installers:01 cpan:01 wiki:01 cheers:01 univ-orleans:01 lifo:01 liquidations:98 binaries:01 tutorials:03 Dear list, During yesterday's OCaml Developer Day, a few important points have been discussed. First and foremost, due to extremely limited manpower, Inria does not intend to expand on the current OCaml distribution, nor even to be in charge of an end-user distribution. Rather, Inria would concentrate on the core language, in a distribution possibly smaller than the current tarball, while the community should be in charge of things such as * a standard library distribution (e.g. ExtLib + Camomile + LablGtk + ... ) * binaries & installers * testing * code repositories (à la CPAN) * deciding standard practices (e.g. Unicode) * expanding the platform (e.g. development environments, DSLs) * maintaining FAQs and tutorials * evangelism... How and when all this should happen needs to be discussed. One tool for these discussions is the current mailing-list. Another tool is the Cocan Wiki ( http://www.cocan.org ). One important thing: every task needs manpower. So please consider volunteering. Cheers, David -- David Teller Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations.