Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le lundi, 11 juillet 2016 à 09:55, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > I think the time is better spend of releasing ocaml more frequently than making
> > more work by splitting compiler and stdlib.
> 
> […]
> 
> > 3) is a big reason for me. Or if not stable then at least testing.
> > There is also Ubuntu and others with long term releases where versions
> > can remain lower than would be good.
> 
> […]  
> 
> If 3) is important to you then releasing ocaml more frequently won't change anything to the problem.  
> 
> One of the big problem and reason I have not been able to simply always targeting the latest I naturally need to implement a package is *precisely* because of distributions lagging far behind from the current released version — 4.01 was released almost three years ago and that's what we have in debian stable.  

And this is why there are time-based releases of software projects which
moreover try to align with the schedule of distributions for their
stable versions. For debian oldstable, the OCaml release arrived only a
few weeks, at most months, late; I wouldn't blame Debian for not going
with something that was known to not be very stable.

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Adrien Nader