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 SAA24571; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:38:20 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA24458 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:38:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA20586 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:11:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (chopin.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.170]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9OEBoj28520 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:11:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id QAA15755; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:11:38 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:11:38 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Mattias Waldau Cc: Rolf Wester , caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Message-ID: <20011024161138.D14344@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <3BD58FBC.24509.6BA76944@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mattias.waldau@abc.se on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 15:52:46 +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Mattias Waldau wrote: [snip stuff on which I generally agree] > Unison could be a killer application, but it lacks all user > friendliness. It depends on your notion of "user friendliness": for the tasks it was mainly aimed at, it seems to be doing an excellent job, IMHO. > However, not so many people need syncronization. I don't think this is true: when I pushed unison at our institute, it was very quickly taken up by a quite significant number of staff, both Unix and Windows users. Today it is already available on all of our machines. It's the only kid in town that can really claim to efficiently, reliably and securely synchronize both ways across multiple platforms. Even though this hasn't made anybody switch to OCaml, people have at least stopped giving me benign smiles when I mention it ;) Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr