From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3AEF7FE36 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:43:16 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:iTiXmxEGwLbeVvawwboymZ1GYnF86YWxBRYc798ds5kLTJ75oc2wAkXT6L1XgUPTWs2DsrQf2rKQ6P2rATxIyK3CmUhKSIZLWR4BhJdetC0bK+nBN3fGKuX3ZTcxBsVIWQwt1Xi6NU9IBJS2PAWK8TWM5DIfUi/yKRBybrysXNWD14Lsiqvqq9X6WEZhvHKFe7R8LRG7/036l/I9ps9cEJs30QbDuXBSeu5blitCLFOXmAvgtI/rpMYwu3cYh/V02MlbTqT8N7o/S/RyFjkqPnox49Kj4RbEVhSO4D4CF28+jRdCRQTIukLURJD05wfzsOtw3B6wqcvkSbF8DTir6aZmTFnilSoBJTo42GzNkMVsjbtGrVSqp0oskMbvfIiJOa8mLevmdtQASD8ZUw== Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=pra; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com) identity=helo; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AMAQAOaYNXhkpWN0pcvieBeoYYAoFhEgEBAQEBAQEBEQEBAQgLCwkhL4IyFYIWAQQBI1YFCwsaAiYCAkcQBhuIIAiwLI5SAQEIAQEBASOBAYhwgQOEQYMBK4IvBZkYmBEOhV+QDyUNgjyBWIosAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0AMAQAOaYNXhkpWN0pcvieBeoYYAoFhEgEBAQEBAQEBEQEBAQgLCwkhL4IyFYIWAQQBI1YFCwsaAiYCAkcQBhuIIAiwLI5SAQEIAQEBASOBAYhwgQOEQYMBK4IvBZkYmBEOhV+QDyUNgjyBWIosAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,345,1464645600"; d="scan'208";a="184483663" Received: from mail6.webfaction.com (HELO smtp.webfaction.com) ([74.55.86.74]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 11 Jul 2016 11:43:15 +0200 Received: from [172.16.35.145] (global-184-3.nat-1.net.cam.ac.uk [131.111.184.3]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221FE20F1DD2; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:43:10 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <583E8E2B027F438686B3428432F20F17@erratique.ch> In-Reply-To: <20160711085535.GA5328@frosties> References: <5E818FB5-6908-4E29-838E-C6A2836F60CE@inria.fr> <7BDA5C9D56314AE6A0D9E07226862399@erratique.ch> <3004f713-9b54-b221-16c3-f4302abc1a44@lexifi.com> <105BC114A91747C4A583F92DB6AD6BA8@erratique.ch> <20160711085535.GA5328@frosties> X-Mailer: sparrow 1.6.4 (build 1178) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library Le lundi, 11 juillet 2016 =C3=A0 09:55, Goswin von Brederlow a =C3=A9crit : > I think the time is better spend of releasing ocaml more frequently than = making > more work by splitting compiler and stdlib. [=E2=80=A6] > 3) is a big reason for me. Or if not stable then at least testing. > There is also Ubuntu and others with long term releases where versions > can remain lower than would be good. [=E2=80=A6]=20=20 If 3) is important to you then releasing ocaml more frequently won't change= anything to the problem.=20=20 One of the big problem and reason I have not been able to simply always tar= geting the latest I naturally need to implement a package is *precisely* be= cause of distributions lagging far behind from the current released version= =E2=80=94 4.01 was released almost three years ago and that's what we have= in debian stable.=20=20 Best,=20=20 Daniel