On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 15:16, Gerd Stolpmann <[email protected]> wrote: > IMO, the special problem with Janestreet Core is that it is a company > product, and that the release of the code probably does not get the > attention it should get (they make Core primarily for themselves, and not > for us). Companies tend to view source releases as marketing (for getting > developers), and once the first version is out, they gradually lose > interest in releasing updates and in interacting with the external users. > (Actually, I'd like it when somebody outside Janestreet cloned it, and > made a community edition. This would at least better decouple the internal > and external interactions.)
It's certainly true that supporting open source attracts developers as potential employees, and I would guess it also plays a role here. But I think they are actually serious about their open source effort and probably underestimated the technical challenges of safely integrating outside repositories with their internal version control. Their ultimate goal apparently is to make it as easy as possible to ferry back and forth patches between their open source and internal repositories. Once they get a grip on that, I'm pretty sure the (maybe not so) recent packaging annoyances relating to Jane Street libraries will go away. > But anyway, the question is how GODI should react. I'm currently > developing a new version of godi_console which will be able to build > historic versions. But this is lame, and is not meant for resolving this > (the idea is to support groups better who agree on using a certain version > of a package). > > The better reaction is probably to write to Janestreet, and to request > support. It's their mess, and they should clean it up. They are surely already quite aware by now that people are not happy with the current situation, in which their packages are either holding up other development or causing package incompatibilities. Not sure it's going to happen, but they stated it would only take a few weeks now to make it happen. I hope they didn't mean "Weeks" as in "Stephen Weeks" ;-) Regards, Markus -- Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info [email protected] _______________________________________________ Godi-list mailing list [email protected] https://godirepo.camlcity.org/mailman/listinfo/godi-list
