On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:00:18PM +0200, Maxence Guesdon wrote: > > No offense but what does it do better than IRC for example? > > It's in OCaml :-) As said, IMO, this is not a good point, but the joke is funny :) > And ,more seriously, you do not need a server, this can work on a local > network. I don't know IRC well but i think it needs a server. Sure, IRC needs a server and this not. Then the question is for which reasons MLChat is better than the standard talk? (Please note that I'm asking for a question from the _user_ point of view, not from a developer point of view, and, yes, I know that the talk protocol is orrible ... I'm working on a talk implementation for an exam) BTW I'm not against MLChat, but debian is suffering of a bloating problem regarding the number of packages in the archive, so is probably better to be sure, before packaging a program, that: 1) the program is usefule and not merely a clone of another program 2) the program is effectly used by someon (I'm happy to know that at INRIA all people use MLChat, but IIRC INRIA is full of RedHat boxes :-)) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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