From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA22028; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:55:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA22647 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:55:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2J8uIKW007854 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:56:18 +0100 Received: from ibm3.cicrp.jussieu.fr (ibm3.cicrp.jussieu.fr [134.157.15.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.12.10/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id i2J8tmSF044749 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:55:48 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 164 Received: from ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr (ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr [134.157.15.1]) by ibm3.cicrp.jussieu.fr (8.8.8/jtpda/mob-V8) with ESMTP id JAA115102 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:54:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (fernande@localhost) by ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr (8.8.8/jtpda/mob-v8) with ESMTP id JAA1290346 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:50:39 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr: fernande owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:50:38 +0100 (NFT) From: Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons X-X-Sender: fernande@ibm1 To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Demande clarification nomenclature ocaml* In-Reply-To: <20040318185723.GE27866@speakeasy.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 405AB594.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; pons:01 pons:01 etu:99 extlib:01 claire:99 camlimages:01 extlib:01 baire:01 fernandez:01 fernandez:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 olivier:02 olivier:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 201 Bonjour, > There are two extlibs because two different people decided to > release libraries filling in gaps in the standard library, using the > obvious name, without knowing about the existance of another such > effort. When the other extlib was announced quite a while ago, I > talked with its author, and that the time neither one of us were > willing to change names. Since then, the other one (That most people > have mentioned here) doesn't seem to be being actively maintained > the way mine is; as of a couple of days ago, when I checked, there > hadn't been any commits to its CVS tree in months. That makes me, at > least, even less likely to change my extlib's name than I was 6 > months ago. La communaute ne semble meme pas capable de se mettre d'accord sur la nomenclature de ses bibliotheques. Verra-t-on ensuite une querelle pour savoir qui detient le veritable "ocamlmakefile", "ocamlxml" ou encore "ocamlyacc" ? Il me semble raisonnable que l'utilisateur ait une vision claire de ce qui est officiellement developpe par l'INRIA et de ce qui ne l'est pas. Raison pour laquelle il me semble que l'INRIA devrait etre plus vigilant au sujet de la nomenclature, par exemple en affirmant sa primaute sur le suffixe ocaml* en demandant aux autres bibliotheques de migrer vers caml* telle CamlImages, ou encore en demandant aux contributeurs d'eviter des noms equivoques tels ExtLib. Je me trouve apres coup bien aimable de n'avoir pas nomme Baire plutot OCamlStdLib : c'est bien plus vendeur. Diego Olivier ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners