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

[Brian H. <bri...@ql...>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, John Max Skaller wrote:

> One thing Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python,
> once said to me was that all that really mattered was
> users. (Meaning, your product is good if it attracts
> a lot of users).

This I seriously agree with.  A 1.0 release would help adoption.  
Especially as it seems we do have users, or at least potiential users.

> Well, its easier for a group.
> So I vote:
> 
> 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.

I only know of one API question at this point: things that might change
(go away): and that's precise/imprecise actions in psqueue.  Currently
there are two sets of operations: find, adjust, add, and remove, which
throw an exception on "unexpected" conditions (adding a key that already
exists, removing a key which doesn't, etc), and query, update, insert, and
delete, which do something "intelligent" in those costs (adding a key that
already exists becomes an update, removing a key that doesn't exist does
nothing, etc).  Now, my preference would be to pick one of the two sets
and run with it- but I don't know which one.  Feedback would be
appreciated here.

There are a number of functions I'd like to add (psqueue.enum for
example).  But adding functions isn't a problem (for compatibility)- it's
removing or altering existing functions.

Brian