From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pB6JUdHW018154 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:30:39 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuAEACxs3k5beTnJ/2dsb2JhbABDhQWiW4QCgXIBAQUjDwFFEQkCGAICBRYLAgIJAwIBAgEaKwYBDAYCAhCHdQajV5F5gTKIaoEWBJRmhUqMVw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,308,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="134224010" Received: from krypton.hackadomia.org (HELO dogguy.org) ([91.121.57.201]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Dec 2011 20:30:34 +0100 Received: by dogguy.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 029D92046C; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:30:33 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on krypton X-Spam-Level: Received: from [192.168.1.40] (home.dogguy.org [88.171.125.180]) by dogguy.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30A00200F3; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:30:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EDE6C00.2090104@dogguy.org> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:24:48 +0100 From: Mehdi Dogguy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111110 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabrice Le Fessant , caml-list References: <1B0D83BD-1902-4F7C-B3FB-B759122D6AB9@googlemail.com> <4EDDF394.7010401@inria.fr> <20111206105801.GA21990@upsilon.cc> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=8C2ED8FF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork On 12/06/2011 05:12 PM, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli > 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, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/