From: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>
To: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Jérémie Dimino" <jeremie@dimino.org>,
"Jacques Garrigue" <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
"caml users" <caml-list@inria.fr>,
"Caml-devel developers" <caml@inria.fr>,
"Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:45:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE2494E.107@dogguy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C40B07A-37D3-4E61-BAFD-2C3731FFA90A@googlemail.com>
On 12/09/2011 06:36 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>
> Whether you call it a "fork" or a "distribution" doesn't matter.
>
It does, IMHO. Forking a project allows you to integrate more intrusive
changes, and doesn't force you to stay compatible (in some way) with the
original work. That's, in my understanding, the biggest difference
between the two approaches.
Regards,
--
Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي
http://dogguy.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-08 9:10 Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-08 9:54 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-08 10:28 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-08 10:46 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-08 11:08 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-08 16:42 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-12-08 10:47 ` ivan chollet
2011-12-08 14:07 ` oliver
2011-12-08 11:11 ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2011-12-08 18:18 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-09 21:42 ` oliver
2011-12-08 10:16 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-08 11:07 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-09 2:11 ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-12-09 10:37 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-09 11:03 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 11:17 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2011-12-09 11:50 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-09 12:36 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-09 23:22 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-09 22:33 ` oliver
2011-12-09 14:24 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 17:00 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-09 17:36 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 17:45 ` Mehdi Dogguy [this message]
2011-12-09 23:24 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-10 9:31 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-10 14:45 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-12-10 15:58 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-12 10:21 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-12-12 10:59 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-12 12:20 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-12 15:17 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-19 4:09 ` Romain Beauxis
2011-12-19 17:35 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-12 12:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-10 17:06 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-10 18:28 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-10 18:34 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-10 19:10 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-10 20:55 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-10 21:40 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/p5 type reflection [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-10 23:34 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 0:47 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/p5 type reflection [ Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-11 11:19 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 18:14 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-11 9:04 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/p5 type reflection [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-11 9:36 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-11 10:29 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 11:23 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-11 11:38 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 10:20 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-12-11 10:47 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 13:27 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-11 13:35 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 13:42 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-11 13:36 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2011-12-11 13:46 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-10 23:28 ` [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-12-11 11:02 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-13 19:36 ` oliver
2011-12-14 12:13 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-16 10:03 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-11 13:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-11 13:59 ` [Caml-list] Community distribution [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-12 17:48 ` [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-13 20:39 ` [Caml-list] New experimental ARM backend [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-14 9:18 ` Mark Shinwell
2011-12-14 21:51 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 11:57 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 13:08 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 14:50 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2011-12-18 16:42 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 17:23 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-21 10:11 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 13:16 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-17 18:36 ` [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-18 4:25 ` Till Varoquaux
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