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 UAA00207; Fri, 7 May 2004 20:43:02 +0200 (MET DST) 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 UAA01396 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 20:43:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rabelais.socialtools.net (rabelais.socialtools.net [81.2.94.243]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i47Ih0EV007132 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 20:43:00 +0200 Received: by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix, from userid 108) id E5F70232DF; Fri, 7 May 2004 19:42:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from socialtools.net (chaucer.socialtools.net [81.2.94.242]) by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F88232DE; Fri, 7 May 2004 19:42:58 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <409BD8B2.2020307@socialtools.net> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:42:58 +0100 From: Benjamin Geer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, fr, it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "N. Owen Gunden" Cc: Christophe TROESTLER , "O'Caml Mailing List" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml development site References: <20040507.124419.02551989.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> <20040507180905.GA4891@phauna.org> In-Reply-To: <20040507180905.GA4891@phauna.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on rabelais.socialtools.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 409BD8B4.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 owen:99 cpan-like:01 overlap:01 outweigh:01 cpan:01 reuse:01 ocaml:01 o'caml:02 wrote:03 interface:03 perl:03 perl:03 stuff:05 seems:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk N. Owen Gunden wrote: > a lot of > overlapping work would have to go into this CPAN-like repository. To me their proposal seems complementary to GODI. GODI provides the convenience of being able to get a lot of libraries in one place. Richard and Christophe's proposed site could be a place where you could find a lot of stuff *about* those libraries (mailing lists, documentation, development versions) in one place, and with a consistent user interface; I think it would be a great service to the community. Maybe it could be designed so that it doesn't overlap with GODI, but rather cooperates with it. > I warn you that it > seems on this list that O'Caml programmers are very particular about > what revision control system (and probably web tools, etc.) they use, so > may be hard to please a critical mass :). Some do feel strongly about such things, but I don't. Having a site where everything worked in a consistent manner for every project would be a big benefit for users; that would outweigh any small inconvenience for me as a developer. A Perl developer remarked to me recently that one of the main benefits of CPAN is that it encourages Perl developers to look at, and reuse, each other's code. Ben ------------------- 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