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 QAA06814; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:40 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 QAA06595 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h16Fxcf06910; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rta6.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.26) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.7.015) id 3E0C3370019F6908; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:38 +0100 Received: from iliana (80.14.193.26) by mel-rta6.wanadoo.fr (6.7.015) id 3E26CE2100C6D3D9; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:38 +0100 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18goR6-0001hK-00; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:59:36 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:36 +0100 To: Xavier Leroy Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Future of Camlp4 Message-ID: <20030206155936.GA6428@iliana> References: <20030206132829.G19706@verdot.inria.fr> <20030206152053.A32089@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030206152053.A32089@pauillac.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Sven Luther Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:20:53PM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote: > Camlp4 remains part of the OCaml distribution, and will be maintained > like everything else. Yes, it will probably not evolve as quickly as > if Daniel was still working on it. and Daniel's programming talents > will be missed. However, all the features of the current Camlp4 (that > from release 3.06 of OCaml) will still be available and properly > maintained in the future releases of OCaml. Is it not possible to have it both way ? Have camlp4 stay in ocaml as usual, and have a second camlp4 which could be used as a drop-in replacement, which Daniel could make evolve more accordying to his wishes, and were parts can be folded back into the ocaml camlp4 version as they mature, prove themselves, whatever. This would met both yours and Daniel's wish, and also be a good thing for the users who could choose between both version for their own code. This kind of dual developpment track has already shown it works for other project, as for example the XFree86/DRI dual developpment trees, and there is no reason it would not work for ocaml also. Sure it would mean a bit of fragmentation, but i guess most code that needs to get shared does not use camlp4 anyway, or at least could be coded in a compatible way. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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