Re: [Caml-list] Future of Camlp4

[Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr>]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:01:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:

> Mmm, if i am not wrong, camlp4 was developped separatedly, but had a
> dependency on the ocaml source to build. I don't personally use camlp4,
> but i feel that build depending on the ocaml sources is a nightmare for
> package maintainers like me.

I don't say that there is no drawback (with "nightmare", you exaggerate).
Just consider the drawbacks of the different solutions.

> Anyway, would you care to give a bit more details about the practical
> results of the separation ? What about the streams ?

The streams could be put back in the OCaml distribution as they were
before. If the separation is accepted, I can put them in the OCaml
archive with, better, some small code to avoid the problem of missing
of tail recursion which was there before.

> Is it really not possible to resolv your political differences (with
> political, i guess you mean caml politics, not the other ones :)).

Human reasons are political reasons. I am not a machine to produce
code and what I ask is not too much. As the creator of Camlp4, I
have the right to speak about my conditions of work and the right
to say how my work have to be distributed. If you ignore it, it
is normal that I stop working.

-- 
Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/

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