From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AFFBC37 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:50:21 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,325,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33674787" Received: from yubaba.inria.fr ([138.96.217.86]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 03 Sep 2009 17:50:21 +0200 Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Message-Id: From: Tom Hutchinson To: Edgar Friendly In-Reply-To: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:50:21 +0200 References: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Spam: no; 0.00; dependencies:01 ocaml:01 dependencies:01 hutchinson:98 hutchinson:98 caml-list:01 sophia:02 bits:05 inria:06 standard:07 batteries:91 batteries:91 distribution:10 explain:11 doesn't:12 > 8) Other (please explain) It's not part of the standard distribution. Using it in an open source project adds a lot of dependencies. I understand that the Batteries team doesn't decide what gets included in OCaml. Still, many projects are very hesitant to add extra dependencies (even if batteries was entirely self-contained). I imagine there are a fair number of people who take parts bits and pieces out of the batteries sources and use those in their projects. Tom Hutchinson