From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p3CAwAvZ019644 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:10 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAJ0vpE1Yv31z/2dsb2JhbACmLHfBb4VuBI1i X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,194,1301868000"; d="scan'208";a="80636920" Received: from hades.snarc.org ([88.191.125.115]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Apr 2011 12:58:05 +0200 Received: by hades.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D7BD353CF9; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:04 +0200 From: Vincent Hanquez To: Dawid Toton Cc: caml-list Message-ID: <20110412105804.GA26605@snarc.org> References: <4DA20490.2070508@wp.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA20490.2070508@wp.pl> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml standard library: past, present, future On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:27:12PM +0200, Dawid Toton wrote: > > >I know there are some projects of building such complete library out > >there. I've heard at least of Batteries. I know also some companies > >are working on improving OCaml. So when are at least part of these > >libraries (the ones that the upstream core team consider high-quality > >enough) included into the upstream distribution? > So you want some libraries to be put in one tarball together with > the compiler? > Why don't you like them packaged separately? I think you're focused on the wrong thing here; the important bit is the standard. how they get installed is probably irrevelant, the only thing is that there's no such standard package to get ATM. shall i get Core ? batteries ? then which other libraries are considered standard ? The haskell platform is a good example of that. It's not bundled with the compiler, yet they managed to setup a standard effort, where you have high quality and coherent libraries. -- Vincent