On 11/19/2014 07:20 AM, Jon Ludlam wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to propose a new SIG for the OCaml language. > > OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles. It has in recent years seen a marked increase in development activity, particularly in the compiler itself [1], core libraries [2] and developer tools [3]. Many of these newer libraries and features are already dependencies of a number of large upstream projects [4]. > > The version of OCaml in CentOS 6 is quite old (3.11.2, released in Jan 2010), and even that in CentOS 7 is fairly old (4.00.1, released in October 2012). I see the OCaml SIG providing the current stable compiler (4.02.1 at time of writing), and a selection of useful libraries and developer tools. This could then be used as a basis for other applications or SIGs to build upon - for example, it would make CentOS a good platform for building Unikernels [5] and it would be helpful in getting the Xapi Project suite of daemons [4] into one of the virtualisation/cloud SIGs. We actually already have a number of specs that are built for CentOS 6 which could make a good starting point [6]. > > A number of people have already agreed that they are interested and may be able to help (all CC'd): > >>From OCaml Labs (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/ocamllabs/): > - Anil Madhavapeddy > - Thomas Gazagnaire > >>From Jane Street (https://www.janestreet.com/): > - Yaron Minsky > - Dominick LoBraico > >>From Citrix (https://www.citrix.com/): > - Me > - Euan Harris > >>From OCamlPro (http://www.ocamlpro.com/): > - Louis Gesbert > > Comments? > > Jon > > [1] GADTs, record disambiguation, PPX extensions, immutable strings, etc. > [2] ocaml-ctypes, Jane Street Core, the openmirage.org suite of libraries, etc. > [3] opam, merlin, utop, etc. > [4] https://github.com/xapi-project and http://ocsigen.org/ > [5] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628 > [6] https://github.com/xenserver/buildroot We might be able to do this as part of the current Virt SIG if everyone there agrees. I know that we want to use a newer OCaml for xen on both c6 and c7. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20141119/1ea4886a/attachment-0008.sig>