[Caml-list] Re: GODI is shutting down

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

On 24-07-2013, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
> Le mercredi, 24 juillet 2013 à 09:42, Jun Furuse a écrit :
>> Have you discussed your idea of OPAM with Gerd or GODI community before starting the project? Was there no way of working together, to improve GODI, or invite Gerd to OPAM development?
>
>
> I find it strange that for quite sometime we had other individuals
> working on a similar concurrent project (oasis-db) and nobody every
> screamed at them. That project never delivered and now that we have
> people actually delivering we should scream at them ?
>
> I tried godi a very long time ago and was not happy about the
> centralized workflow, maybe that changed I don't know. I then used odb
> for sometime because it was working for the simple things I did and it
> was easy to hack with or provide your own package sources but I still
> saw it as a quick hack --- albeit a very useful one for the time it
> served me, thanks to Edgar Friendly.
>

Please don't mix everything:
1. oasis-db wasn't meant to replace GODI (maybe the Hump if you really
want to compare)
2. as a matter of fact you were using odb and seems to be happy -- never
forget that part of odb rely on oasis-db (which was a short but fruitful
collaboration with thelema)

There was plan to indeed have a oasis-db do something similar to GODI,
but I was not convinced that it should be done (and actually spend
almost no time on it).

Please, this thread is about GODI/opam, I really don't want to be
involved. 

Cheers,
Sylvain Le Gall
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