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Bug#501914: ITP: ocaml-batteries -- OCaml batteries included - development platform for OCaml



On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:33:20AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> >   Description     : OCaml batteries included - standard OCaml development platform
> I don't think "standard" is the right adjective here.  Perhaps
> "extended" or "full-featured"?

I just chose the one which I found in the distribution README. I think
that "standard" is intended here in the sense of "standardization
process", which is one of the thing batteries is trying to do, rather
than in the "legacy" sense.

But yeah, I understand your perplexity, help is much appreciated both
in the short and in the long description :) As a starting point for
the latter I was considering once more the README, which states:

  Batteries Included serves the following purposes:
  * define a standard set of libraries which may be
    expected on every compliant installation of OCaml
  * organize these libraries into a hierarchy of modules,
    with one source of documentation
  * define a standard set of language extensions which
    may be expected on every compliant installation of OCaml
  * provide a consistent API for otherwise independent
    libraries.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
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