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To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml maintenance status / community fork (again)


On Dec 10, 2011, at 00:24 , Goswin von Brederlow 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.

I don't care for the name. I'm fine with "community distribution".

> MfG
>        Goswin

greets,
Benedikt