Fwd: [Caml-list] Distributed computing libraries

[Raoul Duke]

sounds like there are some things any programming language + libraries
project would be good to have; these are along the lines of things i
think haxe would benefit from.


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 (1) a central repository for OCaml projects where
  packages are uploaded, with their different versions, tagged,
  and classified, with pointers to the current, active development
  platform (github, gitorious, sourceforge, whatever) (Oasis DB?)

 (2) a continuous integration server testing buildability of the
  different versions of the packages, with different versions
  of the compiler, and on all available architectures, reporting
  errors in a meaningful way to their authors, and providing
  extremely valuable information to users that will know
  beforehand what works and what does not work on which
  configuration, instead of discovering this the hard way
  (Debian OCamlers lurking here surely know what is the source
   of inspiration of this part of my dream; and yes, Debian does
   all this for the Debian OCaml packages, but we need to cater
   to *all* users :-))

 (3) an organised OCamlPedia site where, for each 'class' of
  problem (parallelism, parsing, graph algorithms, numerical
  computation, code transformation, you name it) developers and users
  can contribute to maintain up-to-date summaries, comparisons,
  test results, code snippets, pointers to scientific papers
  and the like...
  And for each "feature" of the language, I'd love to see tutorials,
  code examples, pointers to the relevant literature, and to
  packages showing them off.

To get there, we need to make our collaborative hidden side shine,
and complete the effort started by some of us to organise the community...
maybe this will happen during the coffee break at the next OCaml meeting.