[ocaml-infra] Tuareg → OCaml umbrella

[Gabriel Scherer]

I hope this does not sound too negative, but I'm not sure we would gain by
"blessing" tuareg as "the" ocaml editor mode for Emacs. The parallel
existence of caml-mode and tuareg-mode has been a long-time annoyance of
mine, because I don't see a strong justification for using either instead
of the other. In particular tuareg has had long-standing bugs that are
rather annoying, and I for one would be very happy to throw away any kind
of elisp-implemented approximation of the OCaml syntax, and use a more
principled approach such as Merlin+ocp-index to handle them (none of which
currently support syntax highlighting iirc., but that could be added to
ocp-index capabilities).

I do think however that given the high number of Tuareg users, it is a very
good thing that dedicated souls such as Christophe accept the pain of
maintaining emacs modes. If he can be pleased by having tuareg repo under's
the "ocaml" community umbrella, I see no strong reason why not -- only I
won't recommend as strongly all of the software under the "ocaml" umbrella.


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Christophe Troestler <
Christophe.Troestler at umons.ac.be> wrote:

> Hi Anil,
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:50:12 +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> >
> > I have no objection.  In fact, there are a few other editor tools
> > that I'd like to move under the ocaml org in order to "bless" them.
>
> Since I do not have admin rights on the organization "ocaml", I cannot
> transfer the repo.  Since there are no issues yet on my version, you
> can simply create a tuareg repo and I'll push the current history.
> Is it good for you?
>
> Best,
> C.
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