Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Jones
Given what Markus said: > Note that communication _among_ machines with different endianness, > assuming that they all have the same byte layout, should work, too, > with the current binary protocol. At least if you do not mix 32/64bit > machines there... I'm going to compile bin-prot for the o

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:20:21PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > - If you have patches either to make bin-prot big-endian or to excise > > those bits of core that depend on bin-prot, then I'll take them, or > > try to help. > I haven't yet attacked the big-endian bits, but I'm working on a p

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:20:21PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:42:24PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > - We think 'core' is a bit too generic a name and risks some > > confusion. If you would like to coordinate with us, then we can > > decide on a different name.

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:42:24PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > - We think 'core' is a bit too generic a name and risks some > confusion. If you would like to coordinate with us, then we can > decide on a different name. (corelib? janestcore? - I admit I don't > have a good suggestion). Same pr

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Richard Jones
A few other points, from the Fedora point of view. - We think 'core' is a bit too generic a name and risks some confusion. If you would like to coordinate with us, then we can decide on a different name. (corelib? janestcore? - I admit I don't have a good suggestion). - For the description, you

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:30:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > I don't know if you realised, but you'll need 'res' too: > http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#RES Yes I did, see #479238, but thanks anyhow for pointing it out :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ...

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Richard Jones
I don't know if you realised, but you'll need 'res' too: http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#RES Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ adding back the Cc to the bug report ] On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:13:50AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > * Package name: core > > This package name is a little bit too generic. Better one may be > ocaml-core. "core" is

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: core Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Jane Street Holding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ocaml.janestcapital.com/?q=node/13 * License : LGPL Programming Lang: O