[Caml-list] project management tool

2009-06-11 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, Would you know a project management tool written in OCaml? The main requirements are the support of: - Task dependency (there might be complex dependencies schema with "infinite loops) - Project/SubProject - Merging (cross project/subproject) tasks Not a problem wether it's web based or not

Re: [Caml-list] project management tool

2009-06-13 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
06/12/2009 07:17 PM, Vincent Balat:: http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocsforge/ Actually the project just started and we have no idea when there will be something usable (depending on whether we found some funding to do it or not) ... Is it (only?) a matter of "funds" (money)? -- Architecte

Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?

2009-09-03 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/03/2009 04:05 PM, Edgar Friendly:: It seems like batteries' adoption isn't quite as thorough as expected. From the end user point of view, things that might help in usage are: - package availability - "For Dummy" Documentation + examples. I hate to say that, but something like this: http:/

Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?

2009-09-04 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/04/2009 01:26 PM, Andrej Bauer:: By the way, my experience with students trying to install software (on WindowS) was that: a) Java is easy to install but is useless by itself b) Java + Textpad editor is hard to install because Java must be installed before Textpad c) Java + Eclipse is hard to

Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?

2009-09-04 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/04/2009 09:37 PM, Gaius Hammond: I am after a language that has the rapid-development of Python or Tcl but with type safety; OCaml is right now the best bet, but it is *very* rough around the edges. The way you install ActivePython is you download it and run the installer and a few minutes lat

Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?

2009-09-05 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/05/2009 03:03 PM, Jon Harrop:: Using a very simple analysis from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systems, 97.14%[1] of the computers in the world run an OS which does not have a "Linux"-style package manager (very sad, but true). With OCaml you can distribute nat

Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?

2009-09-06 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/06/2009 11:47 AM, Henry Lenzi: OCaml has much less people working on it. Colleges churn out C++ and Java-trained people. Python is very close to that. May be, but not nough. I remember Nuxeo switch to Java a while ago. See how much less love Ruby gets because of its Smalltalkishness. OCaml

[Caml-list] probability of some events

2009-09-08 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, 1°) A bit of history before the question. Some of my collegues are running Python at the moment. Python has decided to improve some things, and there is a two step improve coming: - Python 2.6 - Python 3 Both of them introduce syntax incompatibility, especially 2.6 on exceptions (whic

Re: [Caml-list] Re: probability of some events

2009-09-09 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/09/2009 11:04 AM, Sylvain Le Gall: We intend to begin huge developments in OCaml (Web, GUI, system,...) and such changes will make our task a bit more difficult. At least for the 2-3 years coming there will be no problem for sure. After that, we cannot predict the future ;-) It's enough. Th

Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures

2009-09-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/24/2009 02:52 PM, Jon Harrop: The next steps are to get oc4mc into the apt repositories Amen! ;-) -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 __

Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures

2009-09-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/24/2009 03:39 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli: So, the real question is: is OC4MC going to be ported to mainline OCaml and support in the future or not? I dont write so much programs that would really require multiple cores. But I think this is such a good "feature" that should be inclided in the mai

Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?

2009-09-30 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/03/2009 04:05 PM, Edgar Friendly: 8) Other (please explain) Some hints (I just saw it in my INBOX, I dont agree nor disagree): http://www.itworld.com/open-source/78643/how-attract-more-people-your-open-source-project -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administratio

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild documentation

2009-10-21 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
10/21/2009 04:36 PM, Erick Matsen: This is such a common theme on this list, I wonder if it would be worth setting up a repository of well-commented Ocamlbuild examples. That would go a long way towards helping beginners (like myself) out. somthing a bit like that: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild documentation

2009-10-21 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
10/21/2009 05:02 PM, Gabriel Kerneis: worth setting up a repository of well-commented Ocamlbuild examples. You might prefer to swich to a more perennial system Not wrong... -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement

Re: [Caml-list] Ocal IDE: Vote for OcalIDE

2009-11-05 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
11/05/2009 04:51 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak:: The feature list is stunning. Could you port OcaIDE to Emacs please?!? :-D Most of them are possible with Emacs setting, I think. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnet-3.0test1

2009-12-02 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
11/13/2009 11:51 PM, Gerd Stolpmann: A first testing version of Ocamlnet 3 has been released: Ocamlnet-3.0test1 Would you know if there is a schedule to make Ocamlnet NNTP capable? -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnet-3.0test1

2009-12-02 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
12/02/2009 06:39 PM, Erkki Seppala: Would you know if there is a schedule to make Ocamlnet NNTP capable? I don't, but perhaps this can be useful for you. I wrote it five years ago and I think I've used it with some success, but no guarantees :). http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~flux/software/dar