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

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

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.  (corelib? janestcore? - I admit I don't
> > have a good suggestion).
> 
> Same problem here, my intention was to call it ocaml-core, but the idea
> of "pressing" Jane St for a better name together is neat. "janestcore"
> sounds nice to me.  If you feel so, go ahead and mail them with our
> concerns; please put me in Cc.

OK, I'll do it in a moment.

> > - For the description, you might want to use the Fedora description,
> > which is in this file, under '%description':
> > 
> >   http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml/ocaml-core.spec
> 
> A bit too long for our standards, but in fact I have already grabbed
> your module summary posted to the caml list and put it in README.Debian
> (with the due kudos). It looks like that summary is exactly what you've
> put in the Fedora description.

Note there was a typo: at the end it says 'inigroups', it should read
'initgroups' (the name of the C function).

> > - 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 patch
> to make bin-prot dependency optional and detected at compile time. Will
> mail you back when I've something fully working.

OK :-)

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat