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[Nathaniel Gray]

Hi omake-omakers,

Just in case you aren't following the list:  The recent OCaml  
developer's meeting in France has triggered a huge debate on the  
future of OCaml.  It sounds like the Inrians are strongly encouraging  
the idea of an officially-blessed community-built OCaml distro.  This  
would include things like an extended standard library and,  
potentially, a package repository.  Part of the debate revolves around  
the infrastructure for the proposed package library.  Naturally, OMake  
is being mentioned in both positive and negative terms here (though  
the critics don't appear to have actually *used* it...).  I haven't  
read it all yet but I think that this is a discussion you've got a  
stake in.  Anyhow, take a look at the list and you'll see what I'm  
talking about.

I'm appending (I think) the first message in the lot.  Sorry for the  
formatting -- it's copy/pasted from gmail.
Cheers,
-n8

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    Dear list,

  During yesterday's OCaml Developer Day, a few important points have
been discussed. First and foremost, due to extremely limited manpower,
Inria does not intend to expand on the current OCaml distribution, nor
even to be in charge of an end-user distribution. Rather, Inria would
concentrate on the core language, in a distribution possibly smaller
than the current tarball, while the community should be in charge of
things such as
* a standard library distribution (e.g. ExtLib + Camomile + LablGtk
+ ... )
* binaries & installers
* testing
* code repositories (? la CPAN)
* deciding standard practices (e.g. Unicode)
* expanding the platform (e.g. development environments, DSLs)
* maintaining FAQs and tutorials
* evangelism...

  How and when all this should happen needs to be discussed. One tool  
for
these discussions is the current mailing-list. Another tool is the Cocan
Wiki ( http://www.cocan.org ).

  One important thing: every task needs manpower. So please consider
volunteering.

Cheers,
  David