From: ygrek <ygrekheretix@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] ocurl forked and 0.5.4 released
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 00:33:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130206003342.a06e22b3c6639fb96531cd4f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510CEA1B.2070809@vb.fdn.fr>
On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:27:39 +0100
"Vincent B." <vb@vb.fdn.fr> wrote:
> This fork started as I (on behalf of the OPAM team) asked for a fork of
> ocurl to include in OPAM since the original ocurl has not been updated
> for a long time, and is not compiling anymore out of the box, at least
> on recent versions of OCaml. Moreover as ygrek said, his version
> accumulates lots of bugfixes meant to be integrated into the official
> branch for a long time already, that could not make it because the
> original author did not answer at all.
>
> The need of a fork arises from what is mentionned before, mostly the
> original author being unreachable and the changes accumulating too much
> to be kept as separate patches.
>
> As for changing the name, I would personally not do it since it is a
> rightful continuation of the ocurl project (and is backward compatible).
> I’m suggesting to wait for the original ocurl author to reappear to see
> if we can finally merge the changes.
Ack.
Thanks for clearing this up and getting to original author.
As per response by Lars this issue is now settled, for great good :)
--
ygrek
http://ygrek.org.ua
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-05 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 23:03 ygrek
2013-01-31 9:21 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-02-02 10:27 ` Vincent B.
2013-02-04 11:06 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-02-05 22:33 ` ygrek [this message]
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