Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Batteries Included

[Janne H. <jjh...@gm...>]

[Adding ocaml-lib-devel]

Hi David,

How many changes are you going to make and how big are they going to be?
When I offered to help Nicolas maintain ExtLib, he said he'd want to err on
rather conservative side as far as changes to ExtLib go.

Are you sure you want to make your changes directly into ExtLib or couldn't
you ship ExtLib as a separate library and provide your changes as additional
modules that would work well with ExtLib?  ExtLib is already integrated into
several distros (GODI, Debian, Red Hat, etc.) and has a pretty big number of
users.  IMO having a single "main branch" for ExtLib would make it clear for
ExtLib users what is the standard version and what are the "ExtLib extension
libraries".

At the very least, it would be good if you had a discussion about your
changes and goals of your project if you plan on making changes to ExtLib.

Janne

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:01 AM, David Teller <Dav...@un...>
wrote:

> My apologies for being unclear and/or rushing ahead too much. What I
> should have written is that Batteries Included will start by being only
> ExtLib. I (and whoever else decides to go along with Batteries) will
> accept suggestions and requests for features, try to find existing
> libraries with appropriate licenses and/or to implement them. Any
> implementation falling in the field of ExtLib will be submitted back to
> ExtLib, of course.
>
> I assume there will be a few differences between ExtLib-in-Batteries and
> original ExtLib, but I expect they will be marginal and won't come in
> the way (right now, the only thing I can think of is extlib.ml, which
> may have to be replaced by something a bit bigger).
>
> Is this less confusing and less scary ?
>
> Cheers,
>  David
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:25 -0700, Janne Hellsten wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Being one of the maintainers of ExtLib, your below comment confused
> > me.
> >
> > What exactly is your intent?  Are you planning on forking ExtLib?  How
> > is this going to help the OCaml community if we create more
> > fragmentation (as opposed to less fragmentation)?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Janne
>
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