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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E62CBC6B for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:08:39 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CALMlM0dQRFuw/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,392,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="4047497" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2007 00:08:39 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IqGTr-0002x5-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:08:11 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:08:11 +0000 To: Alexandre Pilkiewicz Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Message-ID: <20071108230811.GA10791@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <200711041201.10255.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1194188801.472de001905ce@webmail.in-berlin.de> <1194192721.25159.14.camel@rosella.wigram> <200711081928.11501.alexandre.pilkiewicz@polytechnique.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711081928.11501.alexandre.pilkiewicz@polytechnique.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 camlp:01 ocaml's:01 camlp:01 smoke:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 minor:01 compiling:02 graphics:02 revise:02 debian:04 thu:05 problem:05 problem:05 On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:28:11PM +0100, Alexandre Pilkiewicz wrote: > Don't you think the worst problem for the industry is the lack of > retro-compatibility ? > > Between 3.09 and 3.10 (a *minor* version number change), a lot of program > using camlp4 stopped compiling. If a company has a 100 000 lines code (or > more) to revise just for that, it could be kind of a problem. Granted, it wasn't OCaml's finest moment, but both Debian & Fedora/ RHEL are shipping the 'old' camlp4 (now called camlp5) along with the new one. So commercial enterprises depending on camlp4 from 3.09, if there are any, shouldn't have problems. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat