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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] UFO (United Forces of OCaml)

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