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 GAA25618; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:49:31 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA25655 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:49:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail2.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.58]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1P5nSH02971 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:49:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (syd-ts18-2600-114.tpgi.com.au [203.58.21.114]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by mail2.tpgi.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1P5nHO17716; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:49:18 +1100 Message-ID: <3E5B03CF.6020003@ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:49:03 +1100 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sven Luther CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml standard library improvement References: <200302241103.MAA17811@gnome.at.coli.uni-sb.de> <3E5A1660.9020605@ozemail.com.au> <20030224130855.GA2827@iliana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Sven Luther wrote: >>Anyhow, I'd urge people pause before 'contributing code' >>because that isn't important. The key thing is to create >>a policy document that clearly states the project goals, >>and to apply the policy strictly. >> > > But the discusion could now be ported to a separate mailing list on the > new sourceforge project, could it not ? The licence flamewar also i > guess. I have 3 sourceforge projects, and I think that while it is clumbsy at doing some things it does have a lot of support and reasonable management tools. I can't speak for savannah. Sourceforge downside: FTP is not supported BAHHHH HUMBUG don't these people know that HTTP is unreliable? :-) Also the release mechanism is exceedingly clumbsy, and they don't allow computations on the main shell accounts -- last I looked the computation farm required manually moving stuff around. On licence: given the goal to extend/round out the standard ocaml library, I think our feelings on the licence are fairly moot. We should simply use the same licence as the library we're extending. ON worthy subgoal would be to *eliminate* the other licences: I believe the Str module is archaic and has 'other licence' and we might try to eliminate it -- the Ocaml team itself is working on that isn't it? [Sigh: my FSA code already replaces Ocamllex, but it's FFAU: more work is needed, but if other contributions were LGPL I wouldn't be able to use them unless I rethought my licence policy] -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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