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 WAA19710; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:27:22 +0200 (MET DST) 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 WAA11757 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:27:17 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from eposta.kablonet.com.tr ([62.248.102.66]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h6PKREf28498 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:27:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 99572 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jul 2003 20:30:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 195.174.173.82) (exa@kablonet.com.tr@195.174.173.82) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Jul 2003 20:30:05 -0000 From: Eray Ozkural Reply-To: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Organization: Bilkent University CS Dept. To: Gerd Stolpmann Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GODI (was: CTAN/CPAN for Caml (COCAN ...?)) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:34:49 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 Cc: caml-list@inria.fr References: <20030715180953.GA8821@redhat.com> <20030723113546.A24774@pauillac.inria.fr> <1058966457.32559.37.camel@ares> In-Reply-To: <1058966457.32559.37.camel@ares> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307241934.49910.exa@kablonet.com.tr> X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; eray:01 ozkural:01 caml-list:01 cpan:01 gerd:01 haskell:01 stolpmann:01 namespaces:01 acute:99 erayo:01 bilkent:01 ankara:01 kde:01 malfunction:01 ariza:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi Gerd, Haskell people have been working on hierarchical libraries for some time and I think they've come up with a really meaningful organization. It makes much more sense than an alphabetical list of 100 libraries. You don't need some kind of authority to manage the hierarchy either. It's a self-organizing system :) Cheers, On Wednesday 23 July 2003 16:20, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Namespaces are not only a technical problem, but also a matter of good > organization. This is why almost every suggestion looks half-baked. > Furthermore, it was a bit surprising for me that most participants of > the discussion favoured hierarchical solutions, which would mean we need > some kind of "authority" administering the hierarchy. Very unlikely that > we ever get this, or can agree on it. (Don't forget that the Perl people > are often system administrators, and they are used to this kind of > management.) I really think that we should view namespaces as indexes to > an open, distributed database of modules (if this problem ever gets > acute), at least currently this would me more adequate to the grade of > organization of the O'Caml community. > > Gerd -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara KDE Project: http://www.kde.org www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C ------------------- 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