Will Incremental be open sourced?

Malcolm Matalka mmatalka at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 22:21:25 GMT 2012


Would it be practical for JS to hire someone part time with an NDA who just
does to grunt work for open sourcing things?  I realize that's a lot to ask
but tossing it out there.

/M
 On Nov 30, 2012 11:07 PM, "Yaron Minsky" <yminsky at janestreet.com> wrote:

> Reasonable suggestions one and all.  The main barrier is time to make
> these things ready for an external release.  Actually, real work has
> already been done on externalizing the omake rules, though I'm not
> sure where that is now.  The curses library would really be a good
> idea.  Just need to get someone inside of JS to volunteer to do the
> work...
>
> y
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hear hear!
> >
> >
> > Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> writes:
> >
> >> On 30 Nov 2012, at 14:59, Markus Mottl <markus.mottl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> A few other general things coming to my mind that the community might
> like:
> >>>
> >>>  * OMake build rules
> >>>  * Async curses library
> >>
> >> This one gets me disproportionately excited.  But then, Jeremie's zed
> and
> >> lambda-term libraries are also brilliant (but for Lwt). It's what is
> used
> >> to drive the interactive utop experience.
> >>
> >> More ncurses, less GUI!
> >>
> >> -anil
> >>
> >>
> >>>  * LZO library
> >>>
> >>> I'm sure there is more :-)
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Markus
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org>
> wrote:
> >>>> A practical FRP library would be a great thing to have alongside
> Async!
> >>>>
> >>>> -anil
> >>>>
> >>>> On 30 Nov 2012, at 11:07, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I noticed Yaron gave a talk about Incremental at CMU.  Sounds pretty
> >>>>> great, I've been dreaming about building great ncurses-based
> >>>>> applications in Ocaml since CUFP :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there any plan to open source Incremental?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> /Malcolm
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info
> markus.mottl at gmail.com
> >>>
>
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