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Le 7 f=E9vr. 09 =E0 15:43, Sylvain Le Gall a =E9crit :

> So: what need to be improved?

Cross platform package instructions and a package system.

Haskellers got it the right way [1], design the package system first =20
then select a few stable packages to become batteries included. OCaml =20=

got it the wrong way by first trying to build a huge monolithic =20
library. Everything that's not in the monolothic batteries is still =20
harder to install than it should be.

Best,

Daniel

[1] http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/haskell31-coutts.pdf