From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>
Cc: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>,
Jmie Dimino <jeremie@dimino.org>,
Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>,
Caml-devel developers <caml@inria.fr>,
Stephane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:24:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5ul1g6z.fsf@frosties.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE2494E.107@dogguy.org> (Mehdi Dogguy's message of "Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:45:50 +0100")
Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> writes:
> 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,
Lets call it a half-way house for patches. Half way between the author
of the patch and the ocaml core team. A place to share patches with
other distributions prior to the ocaml core team including them.
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-08 9:10 Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-08 9:54 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-08 10:28 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-08 10:46 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-08 11:08 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-08 16:42 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-12-08 10:47 ` ivan chollet
2011-12-08 14:07 ` oliver
2011-12-08 11:11 ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2011-12-08 18:18 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-09 21:42 ` oliver
2011-12-08 10:16 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-08 11:07 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-09 2:11 ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-12-09 10:37 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-09 11:03 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 11:17 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2011-12-09 11:50 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-09 12:36 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-09 23:22 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-09 22:33 ` oliver
2011-12-09 14:24 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 17:00 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-09 17:36 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 17:45 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-09 23:24 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2011-12-10 9:31 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-10 14:45 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-12-10 15:58 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-12 10:21 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-12-12 10:59 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-12 12:20 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-12 15:17 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-19 4:09 ` Romain Beauxis
2011-12-19 17:35 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-12 12:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-10 17:06 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-10 18:28 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-10 18:34 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-10 19:10 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-10 20:55 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-10 21:40 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/p5 type reflection [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-10 23:34 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 0:47 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/p5 type reflection [ Wojciech Meyer
2011-12-11 11:19 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 18:14 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-11 9:04 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/p5 type reflection [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-11 9:36 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-11 10:29 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 11:23 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-11 11:38 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 10:20 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-12-11 10:47 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 13:27 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-11 13:35 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-11 13:42 ` Alain Frisch
2011-12-11 13:36 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2011-12-11 13:46 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-10 23:28 ` [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-12-11 11:02 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-13 19:36 ` oliver
2011-12-14 12:13 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-12-16 10:03 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-11 13:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-11 13:59 ` [Caml-list] Community distribution [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-12 17:48 ` [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-13 20:39 ` [Caml-list] New experimental ARM backend [was: OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)] Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-14 9:18 ` Mark Shinwell
2011-12-14 21:51 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 11:57 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 13:08 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 14:50 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2011-12-18 16:42 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 17:23 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-21 10:11 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-18 13:16 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-17 18:36 ` [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-18 4:25 ` Till Varoquaux
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