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 VAA10659; Tue, 25 May 2004 21:17:08 +0200 (MET DST) 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 VAA11027 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 21:17:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4PJH5EV023706 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 21:17:05 +0200 Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BShQ9-0007OY-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 20:17:05 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:17:05 +0100 Cc: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] unix.chop_extension Message-ID: <20040525191705.GB28054@redhat.com> References: <1085429093.6065.336.camel@pelican.wigram> <40B307F7.6060405@baretta.com> <1085477754.6065.490.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085477754.6065.490.camel@pelican.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40B39BB1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 chop:01 2004:99 ocaml-only:01 ffau:99 licenced:01 lgpl:01 distro:01 extlib:01 extlib:01 obstacle:01 vanier:01 ltd:98 ocaml:01 rewriting:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:35:55PM +1000, skaller wrote: > Which gets back to the Cathedral/Bazaar problem: > there are plenty of people including me with > reentant Ocaml-only FFAU licenced solutions. > We could probably even agree on a spec, implementation, > and Ocaml LGPL+X licence .. but could we get that solution > into the standard distro? Get it into ExtLib! No, but honestly I today rolled out ExtLib support across our servers. I've been slowly rewriting my personal "missing library" to use ExtLib over the past few weeks and today was rollout day. ExtLib is very good, not as complete as it needs to be, but still a useful addition to the standard library. Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment "One serious obstacle to the adoption of good programming languages is the notion that everything has to be sacrificed for speed. In computer languages as in life, speed kills." -- Mike Vanier ------------------- 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