[Ocaml-biz] The strategic future of OCaml for 2..4 years

[Olivier Grisel]

Brandon J. Van Every a écrit :
> Olivier Grisel wrote:
> 
>>A more contructive attitude IMHO, would be to provide (concrete)
>>proposals/solutions instead of criticizing other people's work.
> 
> Sure.  You got one?

I'm quite new to OCaml and thus not experienced enough to develop 
mainstream tools but tonight I have done my first (tiny) contribution by 
packaging OUnit for GODI.

> Read the list archives for my previous ones?  To recap:
> 
> - winning The Language Shootout benchmark

Sorry, but I am not skilled enough to pretend being able to optimize 
OCaml code.

> - logos for OCaml

Mine still live there:
   http://champi.champiland.homelinux.org/~olivier/ocaml-logos.html

Any comment/enhancement thankfully welcomed.

> - anyone wanna cough up an OCaml 3D engine?

That would be a great contribution.

> We are still debating OCaml brand identity, the nature of its community,
> and its possible growth trajectories.  No concrete plans are possible
> until we have more of a handle on the problem.  Well, one could get
> started on any / all of the above projects, but one could also make
> strategically inadviseable moves in the game.

I really do thing we need actual contributions (code/documentation/...) 
to better debate ;o)

Release few, release often.

Cheers,

--
Olivier
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