<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:37 PM Gabriel Scherer <<a href="mailto:gabriel.scherer@gmail.com">gabriel.scherer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Fabrice Le Fessant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr" target="_blank">Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span></span>To the best of my knowledge, that package was already in OPAM
before your bytes version was added in `ocamlfind`. It was then
removed. </blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>For the record, the idea of a compatibility package emerged in a discussion on the public #ocaml IRC channel on May 3, 2014. It was implemented on May 4 and whitequark and myself contacted Gerd Stolpmann to know if he preferred it see it included in ocamlfind on May 5, and Gerd included it in ocamlfind SVN on the same day -- but the next ocamlfind release came later, on June 25.<br><br>Pierre Chambart create his independent version on May 10 and integrated it in OPAM on May 22. I'm sure he was not aware of the ongoing bytes-compat work. It's a near-miss, unfortunately, as he connected on-and-off on the IRC channel around that time (but not during bytes-compat discussions), and Thomas Gazagnaire had a patch in ocamlfind on May 5 as well.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="line-height:15.6px">A long time ago, we had caml-list and Mantis. Now, to follow such discussions, we have to be on IRC, read many mailing-lists (but for example, discussions on opam for Windows did not even happen on wg-windows), follow Github PRs on OCaml and opam-repository projects... Maybe we should stop using so many communication channels, and just use the caml-list for such large audience discussions ?</span><br style="line-height:15.6px"></div><div><span style="line-height:15.6px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:15.6px">--Fabrice</span></div><div><span style="line-height:15.6px"><br></span></div><div> </div></div></div>