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. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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