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 XAA11280; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:07:47 +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 XAA11263 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:07:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3NL7jYM010840 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:07:45 +0200 Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (unknown [192.168.0.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com", Issuer "excelhustler.com" (not verified)) by gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C571EE013F; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:07:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFBC5C006; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:07:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wile.internal.excelhustler.com (wile.internal.excelhustler.com [192.168.1.34]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A1C5C005; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:07:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wile.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60D76702A; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:07:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:07:44 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: Kenneth Knowles Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] The Missing Library Message-ID: <20040423210744.GC6783@excelhustler.com> References: <20040423185148.GA4434@excelhustler.com> <20040423195206.GA27257@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040423202342.GA5962@excelhustler.com> <20040423205451.GA27396@tallman.kefka.frap.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040423205451.GA27396@tallman.kefka.frap.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Scanned-By: clamscan at chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 knowles:99 2004:99 demonstrate:01 hashtable:01 extlib:01 lgpl:01 gpl:01 ocaml:01 0700,:01 config:02 parsers:03 wrote:03 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:54:51PM -0700, Kenneth Knowles wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:23:42PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > But the fact that these libraries exist is, at its heart, a symptom of > > the problems with the OCaml standard library. > > I'm just encouraging the dissenters to cooperate to more thoroughly demonstrate > their case, and get a well-design library. > > I do suggest splitting domain-independent stuff like extended list and hashtable > functions from specialized stuff like IMAP and config file parsers. That does make some sense; the former could possibly go into Extlib without much difficulty. They also represent less new work, so I'd have less of a complaint about my work ending up under the LGPL instead of the GPL. I'll talk to them about it. -- John ------------------- 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