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From: "Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] UFO (United Forces of OCaml)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:20:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524569E1.20701@etorok.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130927091146.54ef8c42@atmarama.noip.me>

On 09/27/2013 10:11 AM, Gour wrote:
> 
> However, there are certain things which seems like wasting of resources,
> so my humble proposal is whether it is possible to make UFO - United
> Forces of OCaml in order not to have too many (similar) projects
> tackling the same problems.

I think this is worked on under the name "OCaml Platform":
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/ocamllabs/tasks/platform.html

> So, my naive proposal is to try to combine forces together and produce
> small(er) set of tools libraries and make it somewhat 'standard' within
> community.

I'd prefer if existing tools are improved, and the best one considered as "standard",
rather than developing a new set of tools to replace all the existing ones.
As you noticed we have too many alternatives already, and if yet another one is created we'll end up with: http://xkcd.com/927/

Best regards,
--Edwin

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-27 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-27  7:11 Gour
2013-09-27 11:20 ` Török Edwin [this message]
2013-09-27 12:04   ` Yaron Minsky
2013-09-27 12:15     ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-27 15:55       ` David MENTRE
2013-09-27 16:25         ` Siraaj Khandkar
2013-09-27 16:45           ` Ashish Agarwal
2013-09-27 12:13   ` Gour
2013-09-27 11:25 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-09-30  1:40 ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-30  6:01   ` Gour
2013-09-30  6:33     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-30 14:14   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2013-09-27 17:08 Damien Guichard
2013-09-27 18:58 ` Gour

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