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=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E350BC6E for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:40:09 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAItpnUfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQKQEBAQgKKZoG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,260,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21887037" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2008 14:40:09 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0SDe5g2031131 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:40:08 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAItpnUdQW+UCk2dsb2JhbACQKQEBAQEHCgkgmgY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,260,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21887036" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2008 14:40:08 +0100 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJUDS-0001wc-Vq for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:40:02 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:40:02 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: [OSR] OCaml Standard Recommandation Process Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1201440183.6302.27.camel@Blefuscu> <671278.88689.qm@web54601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 (Debian) Sender: news X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 479DDB35.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 camomile:01 ocamlnet:01 libs:01 wiki:01 wiki:01 wrote:01 defines:01 data:02 essentially:02 defined:02 seems:03 module:03 On 27-01-2008, Dario Teixeira wrote: > Hallo, > >> As I have mentioned in my previous message, during the OCaml Developer >> Days, the INRIA team has made clear that, among other things, the >> community is essentially in charge of recommending best practices, >> standards, etc. A candidate name has been suggested: "OSR", for "OCaml >> Standard Recommandations." > > I'm looking forward to hearing more about the results from yesterday's > meeting (are there minutes?). In any case, the OSR seems like a very > reasonable process. > > I'll start with one thorn: the Unicode situation. Everyone plus their > mother defines some custom Unicode module. ExtLib has one, Camomile > has obviously a few, Ocamlnet has its own thing, etc, etc. It would make > sense to have instead a fairly simple "Unicode" package that defined the > basic data type, and then have all these libs use that one. I bet this > was discussed yesterday -- what was the conclusion? > You can already read every presentations on the website (.pdf and .odp). At one time in the future, i will also put the video of every talks somewhere (YouTube?) and a link on the wiki page. http://wiki.cocan.org/events/europe/ocamlmeetingparis2008 Regards, Sylvain Le Gall