From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p2V9GL54002071 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:16:21 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiUGALlFlE3LzuaigWdsb2JhbACYTI0DFAEBFiYliHm1VoVrBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,274,1299452400"; d="scan'208";a="104113835" Received: from hendrix.mega-nerd.net ([203.206.230.162]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2011 11:16:20 +0200 Received: from hendrix.mnn (hendrix.mnn [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 621E9106E78 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:16:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:16:16 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Message-Id: <20110331201616.3b4ca3c6.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <25BB4625-7DB0-47E2-A378-5F121EB41EB8@gmail.com> References: <4D9328A0.3020504@wp.pl> <25BB4625-7DB0-47E2-A378-5F121EB41EB8@gmail.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Arithmetic operations Christophe Papazian wrote: > Selling cars without tires ! > > This is a huge problem of the ocaml community. Who wants a minimal > library ? > What makes other languages popular ? There are huge API. > For Ocaml, the main web site is just for the compiler, the ocaml hump > is refreshed > each month with few new things. So I need to use as well godi (another > web site), > batteries (still in progress, another web site), janestreet (another > solution, another > web site). Everybody is making is own api, which is not very > interesting for the end user. Your view of Ocaml is skewed by your choice of the Apple OS. On Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, a large number of libraries are available via the distro's packaging system. I'm running Debian and there are well over 100 Ocaml library packages available for installation using apt-get. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/