From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA25083; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:14:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA24868 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:14:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from athlon.baretta.com (host186-68.pool80116.interbusiness.it [80.116.68.186]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g96KE1525905; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:14:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C623273AE; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:24:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3DA09BE8.3020102@baretta.com> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 22:24:08 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel de Rauglaudre , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Threats on future of Camlp4 References: <20021006205517.B19829@verdot.inria.fr> <200210061929.PAA01123@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <20021006220127.B20005@verdot.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:29:59PM -0400, Oleg wrote: > > >>Could you explain what you mean by "compromising the future of Camlp4"? >>I thought Camlp4 project was not affiliated with the O'Caml project / team. > > > It would be good, indeed, that Camlp4 be separated from OCaml, but > the direction of the OCaml team refuses that energically. However > it was a good compromise. > > He jeopardizes the future of Camlp4 because he gives me two choices: > either return working on the ocaml/camlp4 version (what I refuse), or > quit the projet. And if I quit the projet, who is going to improve > Camlp4? >:-| Why in the world do you guys take such strong stands in your respective positions? I am no one to give you advice, but, really, take it easy... > Ok Camlp4 will not die then: it will just be maintained, debugged, > just like Caml Light. No future developpment can happen, since nobody > knows Camlp4 like me. As an aside, what is the purpose of developing Caml Light, anyway. Should it not simply be superseded by O'Caml? Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners