Re: [Caml-list] Re: GODI is shutting down

[Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>]

2013/7/25 Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>:
>> I don't think making some people feel uncomfortable is great.
> Personally I don't choose my tools based on politeness, I choose them from the perspective of technical excellence, usability, licensing and maintenance.
>
> If OCamlPro produces software that matches these criterions I see absolutely no reason of not using it even if it renders other tools obsolete and I'm actually very glad OCamlPro exists at the moment to inject energy into building a better OCaml environment.
>
> As far as I'm concerned they produced opam, ocp-indent and ocp-index which are tools I use every day and I'm very happy with --- I'm not convinced by ocp-build so far but I don't mind using if it eventually matches my needs.
>
> What I mostly see in the "general topic of OCamlPro vs some members of the community" (your words) is ego problems.

Totally agree that is an of ego problem. I hope it was clear enough in
my first mail. The topic is probably more about community management
than technical stuff.

I think OCamlPro do a great technical job. I just wish they improve
their PR to be not only "good technically" but also "have a good
leadership". The OCaml community is too small to split it even more
because of this kind of conflict.

On the long term, having good leadership will help us (re)grow the
OCaml community and that should be a goal for all of us.

Cheers
Sylvain