From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: "Hezekiah M. Carty" <hcarty@atmos.umd.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The OCaml Community (aka back from the Developer Days)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:35:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801282035.29035.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a360f590801281216r28ad06f1ufadf4d7ceb74b84c@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 28 January 2008 20:16:17 you wrote:
> My understanding is that the benefits would come from having a richer,
> community developed "official" OCaml distribution. So the stdlib
> would stay in place, but extra items would be included as well.
Ah! So we can fix the stdlib?
Perhaps I should clarify what I mean: we can provide missing functionality,
make functions tail recursive and optimize them.
> For
> example, package ExtLib and some commonly useful Camlp4 extensions
> along with the distribution .tar.gz/.exe/.dmg. If I understood the
> meeting transcription in IRC, the official OCaml folks at INRIA would
> bless this as the proper way to get and install OCaml once the
> community structure is in place.
Ok. Even if the community doesn't control the language, I still think this is
a step in the right direction.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-27 13:09 David Teller
2008-01-28 0:38 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2008-01-28 11:27 ` David Teller
2008-01-28 13:42 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 16:38 ` [Caml-list] " Andrej Bauer
2008-01-29 0:26 ` Markus Mottl
2008-01-29 13:45 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-01-29 20:07 ` Markus Mottl
2008-01-30 13:04 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-30 13:26 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-30 14:17 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-30 15:14 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-30 16:26 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-30 17:41 ` [Caml-list] Re: The OCaml Community (aka back fromthe " David Allsopp
2008-01-30 21:32 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-30 13:10 ` [Caml-list] Re: The OCaml Community (aka back from the " Vincent Hanquez
2008-01-30 9:22 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 17:25 ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2008-01-28 13:35 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 15:25 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 15:43 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 19:49 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 20:16 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-01-28 20:35 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-01-28 20:48 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
[not found] ` <6f9f8f4a0801281235s136f53b4qae8ec2c928f931c@mail.gmail.com>
2008-01-28 20:46 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-01-28 21:29 ` Alterlib? (was "Re: The OCaml Community") Dario Teixeira
2008-01-28 21:48 ` [Caml-list] " blue storm
2008-01-28 13:52 ` [Caml-list] The OCaml Community (aka back from the Developer Days) Romain Beauxis
2008-01-28 14:42 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 15:39 ` [Caml-list] " Romain Beauxis
2008-01-28 15:49 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 15:56 ` [Caml-list] " Romain Beauxis
2008-01-29 15:23 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
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