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

[Diego O. F. P. <Die...@et...>]

    Bonjour,

> It is necessary to provide on-site documentation to what is
> *officially* working properly, and to include that in any release.

Not stating clearly what does work and what doesn't is a mistake I
have done in Baire. I really think Jonh Max Skaller is right in this
point and OCaml-lib should avoid doing the same mistake I did.

> If you do that, it doesn't matter if the other half of the library
> isn't ready. Release it anyhow.
>
> 	release early, release often

One of the problems is the stability of interfaces. I have broken and
rewritten from scratch Baire several times, and I will continue doing
so until I get it right.

It is important to be able to do such things when you are not an
experimented developer in the concerned field (and Baire surely is my
first data structure library).

I don't know how the Caml-lib team feels it, but I first though
'initial' Baire would be the only one and I realized much later there
were a lot of wrong things in it.


        Diego Olivier