From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A94487ED99 for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 22:51:26 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,431,1427752800"; d="scan'208";a="121234638" Received: from mail-ig0-f181.google.com ([209.85.213.181]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 14 May 2015 22:51:26 +0200 Received: by igbpi8 with SMTP id pi8so177971883igb.1 for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 13:51:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.39.105 with SMTP id o9mr38926igk.39.1431636685044; Thu, 14 May 2015 13:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.137.163 with HTTP; Thu, 14 May 2015 13:51:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:51:24 -0400 Message-ID: From: Damien Doligez To: Jonas Jensen Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml release roadmap On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Jonas Jensen wrote: > Is there a good reason not to release current trunk as 4.03 soon? Manpower is one such reason. Also, we like to thoroughly test our code before we release it. And there are several important features in the works. > According to http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5528, the "Inline > records for constructor arguments" feature has been merged to trunk. I > think this is a huge improvement to the language that will improve > code readability for at lot of projects. I see it as a rather small feature. It's not in the same league as GADTs or Modular Implicits, for example. > An end-of-year release seems > very far away, especially if the release date slips because multicore > support is such a disruptive change. I know our release schedule is rather slow, but OCaml is a really complex system and we like to think things through before we release, and this has already saved us from several bad design decisions. -- Damien