[Ocaml-lib-devel] Helping out in upcoming releases

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

Hi ExtLib users and developers,

Some of you may have noticed that there hasn't been an ExtLib release
in quite a while.  Although the last release is pretty stable, a few
bug fixes have been submitted to CVS since the last release.

I discussed the state of ExtLib development in a private thread with
Nicolas to probe whether I should be expecting a release in the near
future or not.  As it happened, Nicolas told me that although he's
still actively using ExtLib, he unfortunately doesn't have much time
to work on maintaining the library.

As I have been using ExtLib for quite some time now and find it highly
valuable, I wanted to offer my helping hand to get new (mostly bug fix)
releases of ExtLib out of the door.

To make maintaining an easier job, we figured with Nicolas that moving
the project over to http://code.google.com would be help.  The good
thing about code.google.com is that it provides an easy to use bug DB,
a wiki (for both user and developer documentation) and Subversion.  By
moving the project to a new home, we hope to enable easier bug
tracking & reporting and less hassle in setting up SVN access.

The old CVS repository has been converted to SVN and moved in its
entirety to http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-extlib.  This version is the
new ExtLib mainline.

I will be releasing the extlib 1.5.1 version any day now.  I can also
take care of updating the GODI package.  I hope I still have enough
time to squeeze the release into the year 2007 :)

Janne