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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4A7BC6C for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:54:42 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HACDCnUfUnw7Xh2dsb2JhbACCNo1zAQEBCAopmxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,261,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7345831" Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.215]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2008 20:54:42 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JJa41-0002dI-6p for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:54:41 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The OCaml Community (aka back from the Developer Days) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:49:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1201439362.6302.15.camel@Blefuscu> <200801281525.36392.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801281949.13064.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 524f6e4313475f667fcdaae0ed98561a X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 stdlib:01 bug:01 compiler:01 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 library:03 library:03 hints:04 aka:04 fix:05 inria:06 inria:06 On Monday 28 January 2008 15:43:22 Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 28-01-2008, Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Monday 28 January 2008 13:35:34 Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > >> I think we don't have discuss about dropping what is currently in the > >> standard library. INRIA will keep everything. > >> ... > >> Nobody will thrown the standard library. > > > > So we cannot fix the stdlib? > > Yep, this is what is called "bug compatible" library... But you can > create one on your own and remove the one from INRIA (hints > -nopervasives on your compiler command line). Then I don't understand how this improves upon the current situation. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e