From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6037BC6C for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l75DHVwT013209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:17:32 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IHfz0-0002jx-00; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:17:22 +0100 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:17:22 +0100 To: Erik de Castro Lopo Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Sorted list Message-ID: <20070805131722.GA8212@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <46B4485B.7040406@menta.net> <1186242141.11801.10.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070804173517.GA24131@jiyu.gnu> <200708050247.34512.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20070805214459.c676d93a.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070805214459.c676d93a.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46B5CDEB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; compiler:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 explicitly:02 patches:03 patches:03 erik:04 rpm:04 aug:07 red:92 packaging:09 distributing:11 bit:11 think:13 On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:44:59PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Distributing modifications to the compiler in the form of patches is > a bit of a PITA. Again, just a packaging issue. .debs and RPM explicitly support keeping "pristine" sources and automatically applying patches to them. Rich. PS. Don't take this as advocacy for forking OCaml though - I think that would be a crazy idea! -- Richard Jones Red Hat