On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:55:38PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:44:59AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > My question is: why are there two "extlibs" and what is the path > > forward if I want to package the pennmush.org extlib for Debian? > > Historical reasons mostly. The extlib packaged in debian, which AFAICT > is the first one, started from a huge thread on the ocaml list related > to shortcoming of the offical ocaml standard library. Thus it started as > a collaborative effort. > > The other extlib IIRC is maintained by just one guy who decided by > himself to distribute some of his helpers to the world. I don't know the > quality of the project because I've never looked at the code. > > It would be fantastic if we can manage to merge the two efforts and > convince the latter extlib developer to join the other project (not the > other way round just because the former extlib seems to be a larger > project), but I don't know if it's possible or not and if it does make > sense or not. > > If you're willing to do so you can start comparing the APIs of the two > extlibs ... > > Cheers. >
Hello, Having a look at the two lib, i think there is no chance to have such a merge. The debian extlib is a collection of pure ocaml libraries. The hump extlib is a collection of C binding. And the debian extlib staff will never use C binding :-( ( because they want to have a cross platform lib ). The fact i don't understand is why the hump extlib has changed his name from stew to extlib ? Kind regard Sylvain LE GALL
