On 06/28/11 06:53, Paolo Donadeo wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 15:41, Philippe Wang <[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe that discussions about types that less than 1% of all ocaml >> programmers understand, recursive functors (for these it must be even >> worse), GC tweaking, etc. is "hacking". >> I don't think it's harmful to have such discussions in the standard >> mailing list. >> But I think it's harmful that the standard mailing list gives priority >> to such discussions rather than to beginners, even if I kind of prefer >> the current situation for practical reasons. > > 100% agree. > > Personally I consider discussions on garbage collecting recursive > functors very interesting, but keeping the two communities separate is > not a wise choice.
I suggest having two mailing lists: - one list focused on using OCaml - one list focused on improving OCaml These two lists should be official and should use a single admin interface. Note that there are currently 3 lists: - caml-list at INRIA https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list (1330 members) - ocaml-beginners at Yahoo! http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/ (1112 members) - ocaml-developer at Google http://groups.google.com/group/ocaml-developer (205 members) Martin -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
