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d="scan'208";a="226300450" Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 11 Jul 2016 11:49:54 +0200 Received: from frosties.localnet ([134.3.242.84]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LZvw5-1azGhm3xFt-00loJB; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:49:52 +0200 Received: from mrvn by frosties.localnet with local (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1bMXqY-00024Y-So; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:49:50 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:49:50 +0200 From: Goswin von Brederlow To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCnzli?= Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <20160711094949.GB5328@frosties> References: <5E818FB5-6908-4E29-838E-C6A2836F60CE@inria.fr> <7BDA5C9D56314AE6A0D9E07226862399@erratique.ch> <3004f713-9b54-b221-16c3-f4302abc1a44@lexifi.com> <105BC114A91747C4A583F92DB6AD6BA8@erratique.ch> <20160711085535.GA5328@frosties> <583E8E2B027F438686B3428432F20F17@erratique.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <583E8E2B027F438686B3428432F20F17@erratique.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:jh5SABkRpdyBM53SsVkAZEpwSjaIJIPQBPWls8VsQ0MNLEayFBN Fznu6L9LaI1EfUc0UH6TiICa15zWPQRSQeq/tJVX02gxyYogc5djM7TZAGZxJ393isc3OJF d21rOBan+UTYCnMx1OVQmCV+N1EnzBNKoB9NmYdXaJ2OsPxxVsJXhSNZuuUWwvrwwh2ijTs KKapMVZsfDktKQy1Lklbg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:Ke2kSEq3VHU=:wbH5j1hw7G5b+UNPFGZYlH Tb/dg4soRH9PB6sCRdQXYg0TB2PmhrfEL1A97lU2CtEgVoCgVR9sjx4mw+/CIBPptSiqFd9yQ 6eKTvv+yLZz9e10oR+HaA4B4NjIHI5lrLuTn1Sq/Dgt2p3zBVFFg6yy9L/F5NjUl91OWP7/tO L6jXNO1LM+rpyyZiA+jROAyHpGxx2AbDaPPJq3jvYkHiMR3/JQDl/9bJ4Gqdk1NAPqMinbDLS Cwf4qt4D5aPWoWjhjsH9bVJ2IVzVfSo64RIGqOJ8n0X7WcjiZ7fhY5S/oA+cO76pfouhHxovr VkcSTfBANaB7RkSzv0/e3Z0q8HaleziaEltm7MAwERx/Rc65BQf1WZKMNfC2dTpNtcygBvvax hqC1sUI9RBAIBAQWY/05ac78np8Oh0LI8izjbXTpVwltO+Mo6otDMlO4eA+ON/wEoAq2Ndu7C LWitCwFGBhGTvcntKv+Wk+B+Qs0FaLEmd+1R25tFLDEUM0AZ94DgfiUQ+G8IO5oNhepD3yYWr iFPTanGKXOJiuRkqAdb5+2SWg56ACh+AUqzv7gXZHhchHGZq0W6JD74f487sOV3OJgpBFp4Hg UjUp2dMxMSFaEExaoX/ZjnsQfH/4PpNgX5RrzYKtjJCvVPHR02seZJoDMwtBuqJj9RxzlMydR 9N1GWKeWJLm/X0/zWZUEvYgCBBP7PZq9pof1k1NbPqWXwIbxR4uOEvsYmGVZzi3+Xgaqh9LT7 q+Bq+USeAypIft0Rq87f70HOQwVCN/UgCu3D5vAAmVyur2K8feigRR6WpTk= Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:43:10AM +0100, 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. > > Best, > > Daniel But at least ocaml will only be as old as the distribution and not an extra 2 years because the next ocaml releast was a year after the distribution froze. Anyway. My point (did I have a point?) was that a stdlib release won't change anything. Old compiler or old stdlib, same problem. If you like my prefer a stable distribution then you have to live with older versions (or use opam). I don't think this proposal would change anything there. MfG Goswin