From: Bardur A. <oca...@sc...> - 2004-04-27 12:55:12
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:45:02PM +0800, Martin Jambon wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > > > I just think of it a more experimental branch of > > development for the ocaml standard library. > > > > If some extension/change from Extlib proves to be highly > > useful to lots of developers, then it can be added to the > > standard library when it has matured enough to be > > considered stable enough for the "mainline" (which would > > be the INRIA O'caml standard library). > > I am afraid that the people from INRIA are very satisfied with the > quality of the current standard library, and will not accept any > significant addition because they are not paid for writing libraries (and > maybe not interested too). > Nitpick: They wouldn't actually have to write the libraries, they would already be written. So it wouldn't cost them anything to include them. But even so, if they decide not to accept anything from ExtLib into the mainline, that would be fine too. It doesn't really detract from the value of ExtLib as a more experimental (and, dare I say it, much more *useful*) standard library. -- Bardur Arantsson <ba...@im...> <ba...@sc...> - Good night. If you CAN! Stephen Fry | Fry and Laurie |