[ocaml-platform] Is this mandatory to continue this discussion [was: on the need and design of OCaml namespaces]

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On 26 Feb 2013, at 10:49, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry if you feel the discussion is unproductive or distracts
> attention from other important issues related to the OCaml platform.
> I, for one, am glad that a discussion of this design question is done
> in the open for the first time -- at the price, indeed, of some
> lengths of text, but I didn't feel the signal/noise ratio was that
> bad.
> 
> I'm not sure "voting" on something is the right way to go, as it would
> have little actual weight when it comes to convincing the actual
> language maintainers to implement or integrate changes, or the people
> having specific needs (JaneStreet, or Alain) that their needs will be
> respected by the course of events. We could have an opinion poll, but
> we already have access to the opinions expressed so far (out of
> memory: Leo, Anil and Yaron have a rather precise hierarchical
> proposal, Alain wishes to avoid tooling changes, and other people that
> have been less involved so far vary between mild interest and strong
> doubts that proposed changes tackle the problem in the right
> direction).
> 
> I feel there is space left for valuable ideas and technical
> contributions, by Daniel and Cristophe for example. If there is a
> feeling that this is too noisy and drowns other -platform discussion,
> I'm ready to take it to another discussion channel (but I would
> personally appreciate public archives to be available).

I completely agree with Gabriel here.  The Platform list is precisely
where this discussion needs to happen, and it is not on the main OCaml
list due to the expected volume.

-anil