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 pB9HkVjX023765 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 18:46:31 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnUCAOFH4k6GnQCBlGdsb2JhbABDhQalciIBAQEBCQsJCRQDIoFyAQEFIw8BRhAJAhgCAgUhAgIPAkYGDQEHAhCsKZEqgTSJKIEWBJRwhUuMXQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,327,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="134764214" Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr ([134.157.0.129]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 09 Dec 2011 18:46:26 +0100 Received: from hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id pB9HjlV4044821 ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 18:46:00 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [134.157.168.1]) by hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D82A8C0B5C; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 18:45:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EE2494E.107@dogguy.org> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:45:50 +0100 From: Mehdi Dogguy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111120 Icedove/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benedikt Meurer CC: =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsOpbWllIERpbWlubw==?= , Jacques Garrigue , caml users , Caml-devel developers , =?UTF-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5lIEdsb25kdQ==?= References: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> <1323427075.32238.91.camel@arrakis> <4EE23EB6.6000209@dogguy.org> <6C40B07A-37D3-4E61-BAFD-2C3731FFA90A@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <6C40B07A-37D3-4E61-BAFD-2C3731FFA90A@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 OpenPGP: id=1C00C790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 4EE2494B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4EE2494B.000/134.157.168.1/hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr/hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr/ Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) On 12/09/2011 06:36 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > > Whether you call it a "fork" or a "distribution" doesn't matter. > It does, IMHO. Forking a project allows you to integrate more intrusive changes, and doesn't force you to stay compatible (in some way) with the original work. That's, in my understanding, the biggest difference between the two approaches. Regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/