From: Lars Nilsson <chamaeleon@gmail.com>
To: "Vincent B." <vb@vb.fdn.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] ocurl forked and 0.5.4 released
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:22:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABqmBnGguMXhDTMhRFb9TzXpsGNv2affXh6YSt18+ptEKWuXow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510D7014.7000001@vb.fdn.fr>
Reply vs Reply All miss by me. Sorry, Vincent.
Lars Nilsson
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Vincent B. <vb@vb.fdn.fr> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] ocurl forked and 0.5.4 released
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 14:29:58 -0500
> From: Lars Nilsson <chamaeleon@gmail.com>
> To: Vincent B. <vb@vb.fdn.fr>
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Vincent B. <vb@vb.fdn.fr> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 31/01/2013 10:21, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you tell us why you need to fork ocurl? Why not continue the original
>>> project?
>>>
>>> And if you must fork then please change the name so the two don't get
>>> confused.
>>>
>>> MfG
>>> Goswin
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This fork started as I (on behalf of the OPAM team) asked for a fork of
>> ocurl to include in OPAM since the original ocurl has not been updated for a
>> long time, and is not compiling anymore out of the box, at least on recent
>> versions of OCaml. Moreover as ygrek said, his version accumulates lots of
>> bugfixes meant to be integrated into the official branch for a long time
>> already, that could not make it because the original author did not answer
>> at all.
>>
>> The need of a fork arises from what is mentionned before, mostly the
>> original author being unreachable and the changes accumulating too much to
>> be kept as separate patches.
>>
>> As for changing the name, I would personally not do it since it is a
>> rightful continuation of the ocurl project (and is backward compatible). I’m
>> suggesting to wait for the original ocurl author to reappear to see if we
>> can finally merge the changes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Vincent
>
>
> I have no problem with this fork, or the name remaining the same. I
> have not used OCaml in a long time and people more active than me
> probably are better at taking care of it at this point.
>
> Lars Nilsson
>
>
>
>
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