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=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C97CBBB8 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:25:08 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkQFAPO0ikhYvxGE/2dsb2JhbACBW6xd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,255,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="15481440" Received: from www.rastageeks.org (HELO mail.rastageeks.org) ([88.191.17.132]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2008 14:24:34 +0200 Received: from ras-macintosh.local (rob92-9-88-161-115-205.fbx.proxad.net [88.161.115.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.rastageeks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07D8A48AF for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:24:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Romain Beauxis To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New Ocaml Plug-in for NetBeans Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:25:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <18587175.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080726102402.b0bcbd3c.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <200807260357.40358.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: <200807260357.40358.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807261425.04997.toots@rastageeks.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 camlp:01 lablgtk:01 ocaml's:01 typechecker:01 plug-in:98 parsing:01 caml-list:01 reuse:01 top-level:03 gui:03 limitations:04 guess:04 ecrit:06 Le Saturday 26 July 2008 04:57:40 Jon Harrop, vous avez =E9crit=A0: > > If I might stick my oar in: why don't the OCaml community write an IDE > > for OCaml in OCaml using Camlp4 for parsing with throwback and LablGTK > > for the GUI? (...) > However, the resulting program would most likely be difficult to distribu= te > due to licensing issues (e.g. if you want to reuse OCaml's typechecker or > top-level) and could not be a viable commercial product due to the > limitations of OCaml itself. It's amazing how you criticize the lack of this or that in the community, b= ut=20 are reluctant to help it. I guess the IDE you mentioned at first place would have been a non-commerci= al=20 software under some sort of open source license, so why this limitation whe= n=20 you *may* contribute.. ? Romain =2D-=20 How can a man Discover a land That already populated with Indians?