Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Version 1.0?

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> And plenty of problems with Ocaml itself.
> And there are many that you won't even find yourself:
> you need users to help you both find problems,
> and also to prioritorise them.

I agree on this one . Modern software development and Internet are enabling
a quick bug reporting/fix and then users only have to update their version.
About this "update" and installation-made-easy of the ExtLib, I was thinking
writing a small and simple OCaml program that will check and download the
last extlib version , compile using ocamake (I think perhaps we should then
put ocamake in the ExtLib) and install it in  'ocamlc -where'/extlib . I
would like to have some comments from Unix users to know how we can make the
user being able to choose the install directory and still have a nice and
portable way of retreiving the install dir (needed by Makefile of program
using ExtLib at linking time).

> RELEASE ExtLib within one week no matter what.
>
> I want to use it! I don't CARE if its bugged,
>
> or if the interfaces aren't right yet.

Releasing with bugs is one point : theses can be fixed later.
But releasing without any correct documentation IS a mistake.
If users don't understand what's inside / how to use the version 1 , they'll
not get "ext-addicted" :-) and will simply don't use it. If you want a quick
release of ExtLib, please help with writing the documentation of existing
modules !

Nicolas Cannasse