Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

On 12/06/2011 05:12 PM, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:51:00AM +0100, Fabrice Le Fessant 
>> wrote:
>>> For the OCaml distribution itself, OCamlPro will have a
>>> different release cycle for its own version, targetting
>>> industrial users, but the
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> Meaning that the code will not be freely (as in Free Software) 
>> available?  (in case you have already decided that)
> 
> If you check on Mantis, you will see that many patches have been 
> submitted by OCamlPro for inclusion in the mainstream OCaml 
> distribution. Our goal is not to compete with INRIA's distribution, 
> but to improve it (so, everything that OCamlPro does will be 
> submitted for inclusion in the mainstream distribution), and to 
> package it more often, providing/including bug fixes faster, with a 
> high quality testing process before each release, that fits the need
>  of industrial users for stability.
> 

For example, does it mean that [1] will be sent to upstream? It is in
"For Beta-testers" section for now… but, I'm pretty sure you'll have
more testers if the patch was publicly published (reading code helps
testing). And, if yes, then do you know when?

[1] http://www.ocamlpro.com/code/2011-05-06-longval.html

(I can't check ocaml's bugtracker content right now as it appears to be
offline. Apologies if that specific patch has been _publicly_ submitted
on mantis).

Regards,

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