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 TAA12042; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:38:56 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 TAA12049 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:38:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3OHcsjq014596 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:38:54 +0200 Received: from warp (chateaudeau-4-82-225-176-25.fbx.proxad.net [82.225.176.25]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 065F8C40FF; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:38:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <008301c42a22$b0e52b40$19b0e152@warp> From: "Nicolas Cannasse" To: Cc: References: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] The Missing Library Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:36:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; cannasse:01 warplayer:01 caml-list:01 extlib:01 extlib:01 bug:01 re-use:01 pretends:01 alain:01 gerd's:01 cannasse:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 caml:01 nicolas:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Shawn Wagner wrote: > > > > - SF.net ExtLib is part of a community process, it accepts inputs and > > > contributions from everyone. Although I'm the main contributor and somehow > > > pushing the project up, I'm not alone and every addon is first openly > > > discussed on the mailling list. > > > - Shawn ExtLib is personnal project , so I would actually except Shawn to > > > rename its library, without caring about the "first-released" argument. > > > > > > > Um. I'll take code, suggestions, and bug reports and fixes from anyone... > > I'm pretty sure that's mentioned in the README. > > If Shawn is not willing to change the name of his library, and if it is > true that this library was publicly available and announced on the Humps, > the Caml list db, etc... before the other one, it is clear that it was a > mistake to re-use the name and it should be fixed as soon as possible. > Nobody has any authority to tell the extlib.sf.net developers what to do, > but if their project pretends to target the whole community and aims at > getting widely accepted, they'd better comply with basic social rules, > IMHO. > > > My 0.02 EUR. > > > Alain You're true about that, and other ExtLib people of course checked that there was so other library with the same name when we started ( I did ). As this time, Shawn's ExtLib was not registered not announced anywhere. However it did a release on 6 Jul 2003, only on Gerd's "OCaml Link Database" and was not featured on the mailing list. As this time we (sf.net extlib people) were actively working at releasing the first version and several topics on the caml list had already been announced what we were doing and how it will be called :-) That's for my 0.03 Eur :-) Regards, Nicolas Cannasse ------------------- 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