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=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47AFBBC1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:06:44 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAFvf2EdDz4He/2dsb2JhbACobw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,494,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="10227849" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Mar 2008 16:06:43 +0100 Received: from aquarium.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.10]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B0118127 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by aquarium.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 724A61258AD; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:05:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:05:49 +0100 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OSR: META files for packages containing syntax extensions Message-ID: <20080313150549.GA15068@takhisis.invalid> References: <98095.73991.qm@web54601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98095.73991.qm@web54601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 syntax:01 findlib:01 camlp:01 gerd:01 findlib:01 cheers:01 zacchiroli:01 zack:01 unibo:01 wrote:01 experimental:01 experimental:01 caml-list:01 On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:40:30PM +0000, Dario Teixeira wrote: > Though the Findlib manual describes the Camlp4 support as being > experimental [2], it works well enough in practice to warrant a more > widespread use. I've nothing in contrary this wonderful proposal, even because in Debian we have been fans of META files since the very beginning, requiring them as per our internal policy. Nevertheless, a paragraph like the above one IMO needs to be backed by Gerd, as the author of findlib. I won't base a proposal like yours on something which is still declared to be experimental. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? zack@{upsilon.cc,cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time