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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extlib 1.6.0 released

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:51:14PM +0900, Francois Berenger wrote:
> I even wonder why extlib is still out there.
> I was thinking it was superseded by batteries.

Extlib has its niche, and several programs exist that are using it.
There's sometimes no need for a huge library like Batteries to do a
few things that extlib does.

Also .. if people want to hack on extlib, good luck to them.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat