Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Batteries Included

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:11:08PM +0200, David Teller wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:54 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Agreed ... Discussing the changes you want to make ahead of time will
> > reduce surprises.  Also submitting small patches (rather than one huge
> > patch at the end) will allow changes to be reviewed more carefully.
> Ok. What about meeting on IRC one of these days and discussing all
> that ? 

The trouble is that IRC doesn't make very much of a permanent record.

We'd just like to be involved - what changes are you planning to make?
New functions?  If so, what new functions?  Bigger changes than that?

If these are just build changes, they can probably be confined to the
'Batteries Included' distribution, but if they involve significant
changes to extlib, particularly ones which could create an extlib
variant from a programmers point of view, then they should be
discussed here.

Early discussion and small, early patches are much better than just
dumping a huge patch on the project at the end (not that I'm
suggesting you will do that, but I have seen this done to open source
projects, and the results are not pretty).

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat