From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B6BBB83 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:23:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3NGN9DS023659 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:23:09 +0200 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 SAA07555 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:23:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (smtp6-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.36]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3NGN8gM023654 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:23:08 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (che78-2-82-237-71-191.fbx.proxad.net [82.237.71.191]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E36223B9; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:23:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <444BA9E9.1050802@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:23:05 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yu-Hui Liu Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Any roadmap for OCaml compiler? References: <44491620.1040505@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <44491620.1040505@sun.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 444BA9ED.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 444BA9EC.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 compiler:01 bug-fix:01 dated:98 caml-list:01 caml:02 caml:02 hump:02 programming:03 bugs:03 languages:03 roadmap:03 roadmap:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 > I briefly went through website http://caml.inria.fr/ but didn't find the > information of the roadmap of OCaml compiler. Is it still a on-going > project? I went through the java.sun.com website and the latest roadmap I could find was dated 2003. Is it still an ongoing project? (Apologies, couldn't resist when I saw your e-mail address :-) More seriously: yes, OCaml is actively developed and meticulously maintained. There is one ".0" release with new features approximately every year, and bug-fix releases every 3 months or so. There's also a solid user community that contributes quite a lot of OCaml software, libraries and tools, see the "Caml Hump" on the Web site. > If someone still working on it and fixing bugs for it? Yes, the core Caml development team, approximately 5 persons at INRIA and U.Nagoya. We're all tenured academics, so we have no problems with long-term projects. > What's the plan for it for its future? First, maintain and evolve it to support the needs of the many serious users we have. The rest depends mostly on the results of our research on programming languages, as as usual with research, I won't tell you what we're going to find before we've found it. Regards, - Xavier Leroy