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 TAA22335; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22376 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:51 +0100 (MET) From: Alain.Frisch@ens.fr Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0TIIpP29342 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.10/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i0TIIoaW091082 ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (frisch@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.12.3/jb-1.1) id i0TIIn4O007541 ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:49 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: clipper.ens.fr: frisch owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:48 +0100 (MET) X-X-Sender: frisch@clipper.ens.fr Reply-To: Alain.Frisch@ens.fr To: Markus Mottl cc: Inria Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] PostgreSQL-OCaml 1.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20040128232131.GA22126@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; alain:01 frisch:01 caml-list:01 1.0.1:01 alain:01 unmaintained:01 ahem:01 2004:99 dbforge:01 libpq:01 postgres:01 honoured:99 non-oo:01 low-level:01 afaict:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Markus Mottl wrote: > Alain hasn't changed anything in three years so I suppose this library > would otherwise have been unmaintained anyway? Ahem. The last release is dated 2004-01-20 ;-) (added support for escaping strings). The library is used by a non-negligible number of people, including by some companies and for other libraries (e.g. mod_caml, Chartpak, DBForge, ...). And according to some mails I got, the users are quite satisfied with the current library. Moreover, it has been packaged for some Linux distributions. It's a good thing to add documentation (even though the users would need to read the libpq doc anyway). Actually, this is the only feature request for Postgres that I have not honoured. But changing the interface (changing names, types, and removing all the non-OO low-level interface) would force existing users to rewrite there code for no benefit (AFAICT). So I'm not going to stop maintaining the existing library, even though I'd be glad to give maintenance to you since I'm not using the library, and even though I feel it's somewhat a waste of resources for the community to maintain and package two libraries. I would have appreciated to know about your intention to "fork" the library before the public annoucement so that we could have agreed on a policy. Well anyway, not a big deal. -- Alain ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners