From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA01354; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:44:07 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01347 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:44:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.cswv.com (smtp1.cswv.com [4.17.129.17]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6QKi5503699 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:44:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.cswv.com ([4.17.129.17]) by smtp1.cswv.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:44:38 -0400 Received: FROM exchange1.cswv.com BY smtp1.cswv.com ; Thu Jul 26 16:44:37 2001 -0400 Received: by exchange1.cswv.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:46:55 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Krishnaswami, Neel" To: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cdk Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:46:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk John Max Skaller [mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au] wrote: > > > > Note that the cdk doesn't offer any new libraries; it is merely a > > > compilation of existing libraries and tools in a single > > > package, the kind that seems to make business folks happy. > > > > It makes OCaml-newbies (like me) happy too, because it's not so > > easy to find a lot of libraries out there. > > And why to reinvent the wheel? > > It makes me happy too, because I can use it in products > I want to distribute, and people can download CDK and > get ocaml and all the libraries in one hit. That's important, > especially if it's only part of a larger toolset. How does one contribute to the CDK? I have a couple of packages that I'd like to make available (including one miraculously simple implementation of balanced binary trees[*]), and I'm curious what to email where and how I should document it. [*] Randomized treaps. This is the only balanced tree structure I've seen for which I can remember how to write a deletion function off the top of my head, without any complex case analysis. -- Neel Krishnaswami neelk@cswcasa.com ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr