Re: Bug#213127: ITP: extlib -- extended standard library for OCaml

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:

> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-28
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : extlib

I could have bet someone would package this :-)

>   Version         : 1.0b

You should try to use another version, like 0.99b
otherwise you'll mess version numbers.


>   Upstream Author : Nicolas Cannasse, Brian Hurt, Yamagata Yoriyuki
> * URL             : http://ocaml-lib.sourceforge.net/
> * License         : LGPL
>   Description     : extended standard library for OCaml
> 
> ExtLib is a project aiming at providing a complete - yet small -
> standard library for the OCaml programming langage.
> .
> The purpose of this library is to add new functions to OCaml Standard
> Library modules, to modify some functions in order to get better
> performances or more safety (tail-recursive) but also to provide new
> modules which should be useful for the average OCaml programmer.
> .
> Actually ExtLib contains modules implementing: enumeration over abstract
> collection of elements, efficient bit sets, dynamic arrays, references
> on lists, Unicode characters and UTF-8 encoded strings, additional and
> improved functions for hashtables, strings, lists and option types.

Since this lib provides utf-8 support, is Camomile worth packaging?
(it is a big bloat)

-- 
Jérôme Marant