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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ED7BC6C for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:48:29 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAMfOnUfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQKQEBAQgKKZsU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,262,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7347900" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2008 21:48:29 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0SKmStd015728 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:48:28 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAIvOnUdC+VLtemdsb2JhbACQKQEBCQgpmxY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,262,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8466180" Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.237]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2008 21:48:27 +0100 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so1781836wxd.0 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:48:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.99.21 with SMTP id w21mr2707082wfb.55.1201553305205; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.173.18 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:48:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3a360f590801281248o29792e9aoc4ae5c906a2d4eca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:48:25 -0500 From: "Hezekiah M. Carty" Sender: hcarty@mulethief.com To: "Jon Harrop" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The OCaml Community (aka back from the Developer Days) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200801282035.29035.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1201439362.6302.15.camel@Blefuscu> <200801281949.13064.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <3a360f590801281216r28ad06f1ufadf4d7ceb74b84c@mail.gmail.com> <200801282035.29035.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5e3968f663e31eb1 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 479E3F9C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 stdlib:01 stdlib:01 recursive:01 camlp:01 28,:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functions:01 tail:01 tar:01 clarify:04 clarify:04 On Jan 28, 2008 3:35 PM, Jon Harrop wrote: > 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. > There are IRC transcripts available here: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/ocaml/08.01.26 which may clarify things somewhat. -- Hezekiah M. Carty Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science