From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA21393; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:18:43 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA19476 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:18:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from btr0x1.rz.uni-bayreuth.de (btr0x1.rz.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.8.29]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2ICJAKW017943 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:19:10 +0100 Received: from btn1x1.inf.uni-bayreuth.de (btn1x1.inf.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.192.6]) by btr0x1.rz.uni-bayreuth.de (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i2ICIXq7023993; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:18:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from btn1x5.inf.uni-bayreuth.de (btn1x5.inf.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.192.16]) by btn1x1.inf.uni-bayreuth.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i2ICIZ73019730; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:18:35 +0100 From: Wolfgang =?iso-8859-1?q?M=FCller?= To: "Nicolas Cannasse" Subject: Re: OCaml's Cathedral & Bazaar (was Re: [Caml-list] Completeness of "Unix" run-time library) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:18:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <07FEC955-782B-11D8-850C-000A957FFA4A@csun.edu> <20040318103140.GA20448@redhat.com> <00cd01c40cdb$71c34410$4500a8c0@warp> In-Reply-To: <00cd01c40cdb$71c34410$4500a8c0@warp> Cc: caml-list@inria.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403181218.45243.wolfgang.mueller2@uni-bayreuth.de> X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; mueller:99 ocaml's:01 caml-list:01 run-time:01 2004:99 cannasse:01 cpan:01 python:01 cpan:01 slick:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 nicolas:01 unix:02 wolfgang:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 167 I probably don't qualify, as I use OCaml only very rarely, however, I do have an opinion regarding your mail: On Thursday 18 March 2004 12:22, Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > I don't think the main issue is technical. I'm not sure that a CPAN will > help OCaml to spread, that it will turns the community into a self > organizing decentralized one that makes the power of Perl, Python and other > languages out there. OCaml have more social issues. Let's see the facts : Oh, I do think that it would help a lot, as people know CPAN, now how it works, know what to expect. It becomes one's own risk to use a library, yet there is an easy way to access and one easy way to tell people where to get it from. This makes it especially more simple for people who are surrounded by FP haters ;-) , and who are forced to give out slick installation packages if they want their OCaml stuff to be used. The same, it can be a goal to say: "we want this on CPAN, so anyone can install it easily". Cheers, Wolfgang ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners