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 KAA17904; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:38:58 +0100 (MET) 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 KAA17987 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:38:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from mwinf0802.wanadoo.fr (smtp8.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.23]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0T9cvv14644 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:38:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from iliana (AStrasbourg-206-1-22-151.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.49.217.151]) by mwinf0802.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0B34E18001FF for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:38:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Am8dR-0003EZ-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:38:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:38:53 +0100 To: Inria Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] PostgreSQL-OCaml 1.0.1 Message-ID: <20040129093853.GA12061@iliana> References: <20040128183218.GA18844@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20040128224410.GC16830@fistandantilus.takhisis.org> <20040128232131.GA22126@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040128232131.GA22126@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Sven Luther X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 1.0.1:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 2004:99 2004:99 alain:01 frisch's:01 supersede:01 alain's:01 fork:01 alain:01 shortcoming:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:21:31AM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:32:18PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote: > > > complete library for accessing the PostgreSQL-database. This library > > > builds on Alain Frisch's previous interface (postgres-20010808). > > > > This sentence doesn't clarify an issue: is this library supposed to > > supersede Alain's bindings or to be a fork? > > I actually haven't asked Alain yet what he thinks about it :-) > > Since I currently need PostgreSQL-bindings, I just took his version and > adapted it to my taste. The interface was hardly documented (its most > serious shortcoming), which usually prevents libraries from widespread > use so I also did that. > > Alain hasn't changed anything in three years so I suppose this library > would otherwise have been unmaintained anyway? > > There is hardly anything left to add to this library so there are no > foreseeable major changes. The new additions and cleanups also do not > make such a big difference. If Alain wants to add or change anything, > he will still recognize the code and can do so easily. I'd say it's safe > to use the new version... BTW, I wonder if the alioth ocaml project could also be a place for hosting upstream stuff like this one ? For information, alioth is a sourceforge like infrastructure for hosting debian related projects. 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