On Dec 10, 2011, at 00:24 , Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Whether you call it a "fork" or a "distribution" doesn't matter. >> >> It does, IMHO. Forking a project allows you to integrate more intrusive >> changes, and doesn't force you to stay compatible (in some way) with the >> original work. That's, in my understanding, the biggest difference >> between the two approaches. >> >> Regards, > > Lets call it a half-way house for patches. Half way between the author > of the patch and the ocaml core team. A place to share patches with > other distributions prior to the ocaml core team including them.
I don't care for the name. I'm fine with "community distribution". > MfG > Goswin greets, Benedikt -- 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
