On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:37 PM Gabriel Scherer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Fabrice Le Fessant < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> To the best of my knowledge, that package was already in OPAM before your >> bytes version was added in `ocamlfind`. It was then removed. > > > For the record, the idea of a compatibility package emerged in a > discussion on the public #ocaml IRC channel on May 3, 2014. It was > implemented on May 4 and whitequark and myself contacted Gerd Stolpmann to > know if he preferred it see it included in ocamlfind on May 5, and Gerd > included it in ocamlfind SVN on the same day -- but the next ocamlfind > release came later, on June 25. > > Pierre Chambart create his independent version on May 10 and integrated it > in OPAM on May 22. I'm sure he was not aware of the ongoing bytes-compat > work. It's a near-miss, unfortunately, as he connected on-and-off on the > IRC channel around that time (but not during bytes-compat discussions), and > Thomas Gazagnaire had a patch in ocamlfind on May 5 as well. > A long time ago, we had caml-list and Mantis. Now, to follow such discussions, we have to be on IRC, read many mailing-lists (but for example, discussions on opam for Windows did not even happen on wg-windows), follow Github PRs on OCaml and opam-repository projects... Maybe we should stop using so many communication channels, and just use the caml-list for such large audience discussions ? --Fabrice
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