From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA10716 for caml-redistribution; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:04:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04513 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:49:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07870; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:49:16 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA27736; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:49:16 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19990201144916.42120@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:49:16 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Markus Mottl , OCAML Subject: Re: If i had a hammer... References: <199901281102.MAA16126@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: <199901281102.MAA16126@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>; from Markus Mottl on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:02:55PM +0100 Sender: weis I have followed this discussion with interest. Having some sort of central archive of publically-available Caml tools and libraries would be an excellent thing, both to connect developers and users, and to coordinate future developments. I strongly encourage everyone who has written a piece of Caml code of general interest to publish it on their web pages and announce it on this mailing-list. It would be great to have a set of Web pages listing all such announcements. We've been willing to do this for a long time, but didn't quite find the time. We could try harder, of course; but if there are any volunteers for maintaining such a list (or other Web material for Caml), we'd be very happy to provide an account on the caml.inria.fr server. (Please contact us directly at caml-light@inria.fr.) > I would really like to see a remote CVS-repository for OCAML somewhere. I > am sure this would very strongly help people contribute collectively > to projects written in OCAML. I have already asked at our university, > but people there are a bit reluctant with software that they don't know > so well and which allows remote access. > Is there any machine at INRIA that could be used for CVS? With read-only > access to the repository for everyone and write permissions for people > who have already contributed useful code to a project? We have plenty of old workstations that could be used for this purpose, and indeed I've been thinking lately about providing read-only CVS access to the OCaml development sources, as a simple way to make available patches between releases. Setting up such a machine raises delicate security issues (our machines have been attacked twice in the last three years), and even more so if read-write access is provided for some users. Remote developers would also need the ability to make .tar.gz distributions of their sources available on our FTP server. This can also be done, but raises further security issues. A more decentralized development model, where developers maintain their own CVS archives and release on their own Web sites, would certainly be easier to implement. We would still have a centralized listing of available software on our Web site, and perhaps automatic mirroring on our FTP server (and on the INRIA Rocquencourt CD-ROM). So, before we embark on setting up a public CVS server, I'd like to know how many developers feel they could use it. (Please respond privately to caml-light@inria.fr.) Let's start to fill that Caml's hump! - Xavier Leroy