Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Caml Community Code

["blue storm" <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>]

Sylvain Le Gall has announced at the meeting that he would provide a
server with basic development tools. I think it would be pertinent to
host such projects there.
(Moreover, sourceforge is not free, baah :p )
But I don't know how his server-building is going.

More generally, I totally agree on the "get things done" idea.
I'm willing to help in the camlp4 area. A common place for up-to-date
camlp4 extensions (akin to what martin jambon provides for ocaml <=
3.09) would be a very good thing.

On 1/31/08, Jonathan Bryant <watersofmemory@gmail.com> wrote:
> List,
>
> Despite all the great ideas on the [OSR] threads, we seem to be getting
> nowhere and talking ourselves to death bickering about implementation
> details of code that hasn't even been written yet.  I think the only thing
> we can agree on is that tools for use by the community should be written by
> the community.  Because of that, we need to start writing them: the best way
> to find out what works is to try.
>
> I've created a SourceForge project called Caml Community Code here (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/camlcode) where we can put any code for
> community OCaml tools.  The fact that we can't hack the OCaml language
> itself (due to French copyright law) seems to have unfortunately caused the
> community to not hack together on other tools _for_ the language.  With this
> project everyone can hack on the tools we'll (hopefully) end up using every
> day, rather than having INRIA or one person try to build something that
> satisfies everyone.  If you have code for tools (I know someone at least has
> some code for a package manager), please put it in the repository so we can
> all see and work on it _as as community_.
>
> Regarding the package manager discussion, what we need is a few functioning
> prototypes.  Later we can go back and cherry pick features we like and merge
> them down to just two to develop a little more, and finally pick one.  I
> also think we should have one CamlP4 grammar with all the community's agreed
> upon "standard" syntax extensions (sort of a "new revised" syntax?), a set
> of "standard" ocamlbuild plugins, and "standard" interfaces (XML parser,
> etc.), all of which can be stored in the project as well.
>
> I was waiting for the project to get approved before sending this out (it
> just came through this morning), so I'll go ahead and make a temporary
> directory layout.
>
> --Jonathan
>