From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pB9NPCwJ031617 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:25:12 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjUBADeY4k7ZSMDdi2dsb2JhbABDqnsiAQEBCgsLBxIFIoFyAQEEATo/BQsLGAklDwEEKCETFIdzArVai3IEmieMcQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,329,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="122807101" Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 Dec 2011 00:25:07 +0100 Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8180D1A43D076; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:25:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from frosties.localnet ([95.208.118.96]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MINMF-1RcBHr0qPn-0048WY; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:25:05 +0100 Received: from mrvn by frosties.localnet with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ9oC-0008TU-QX; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:24:52 +0100 From: Goswin von Brederlow To: Mehdi Dogguy Cc: Benedikt Meurer , Jmie Dimino , Jacques Garrigue , caml users , Caml-devel developers , Stephane Glondu In-Reply-To: <4EE2494E.107@dogguy.org> (Mehdi Dogguy's message of "Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:45:50 +0100") References: <55531934-37A5-4CC5-AB67-20CE4CCE8269@googlemail.com> <1323427075.32238.91.camel@arrakis> <4EE23EB6.6000209@dogguy.org> <6C40B07A-37D3-4E61-BAFD-2C3731FFA90A@googlemail.com> <4EE2494E.107@dogguy.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux, no MULE) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:24:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5ul1g6z.fsf@frosties.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:UPRpE+gwa9aSZUiFYwoWhuncD+I4sAZja6nOK2GVWwp yC7fMp/M/lb16I0WRga1KXcX+Zfy43cdhM2tN6XhkRCaubc/MV Bksq5VHYTNzYU8TomHnbYgtsR1Rz30cPQy45QmxdKv55p4hrgt K8PfXhBF8Fje80JfyMyvHn/QtaO3fEt5LDpmAPf8hDlBh1iNXN Py0eMzeP5WHcHHs1oV8Bw== Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again) Mehdi Dogguy 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