Re: [Caml-list] beginners or not (Was: build problem with 3.12.0; no ocamlrun in /usr/local/bin)

[Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>]

On 06/28/11 06:53, Paolo Donadeo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 15:41, Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info> wrote:
>> I believe that discussions about types that less than 1% of all ocaml
>> programmers understand, recursive functors (for these it must be even
>> worse), GC tweaking, etc. is "hacking".
>> I don't think it's harmful to have such discussions in the standard
>> mailing list.
>> But I think it's harmful that the standard mailing list gives priority
>> to such discussions rather than to beginners, even if I kind of prefer
>> the current situation for practical reasons.
> 
> 100% agree.
> 
> Personally I consider discussions on garbage collecting recursive
> functors very interesting, but keeping the two communities separate is
> not a wise choice.

I suggest having two mailing lists:

- one list focused on using OCaml
- one list focused on improving OCaml

These two lists should be official and should use a single admin interface.


Note that there are currently 3 lists:
- caml-list at INRIA https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list (1330
members)
- ocaml-beginners at Yahoo!
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/ (1112 members)
- ocaml-developer at Google
http://groups.google.com/group/ocaml-developer (205 members)


Martin