Julian Assange wrote:

> > * Parsing and manipulating RFC 822 mail headers
> > * Parsing and manipulating MIME documents
> > * Parsing and downloading URLs
> > * A FTP client
> > * An HTTP Server
> > * An HTTP Client
> > * An IMAP Client
> > * An SMTP Client
> > * A POP Client
> > * A NNTP Client
> > * A Telnet Client
> > * Parsing, manipulating, and generating HTML
> > * Parsing, manipulating, and generating SGML
> > * Audio data creation and manipulation
> > * Image data creation and manipulation
> > * High-level file operations (copy file, copy directory tree,
> >   delete directory tree)
> 
> If these things ever end up in the standard library, I will pack my bags and
> go home.

[...]

> As the number of inter-dependent ocaml packages increases, I'm
> increasingly hit by version conflicts.
> 
> A library calculus system which was URL name space aware would be
> particularly interesting. NetBSD and FreeBSD take this approach in
> their own package source dependency system for instance. Compiling one
> package recursively pulls in, uncompresses, patches, compilies and
> installs the dependencies.
> 
> Such technology strongly fosters co-operative community.

	Yeah, but failing to recognize that the technology 
for inter-networking such shared library modules is required
before it can be implemented: namely the components you
said will send you packing your bags were they fundamental. :-)

	There's a difference between 'standard library' and
'standard distribution' too: the "Unix" module, for example,
is part of the latter but not the former.

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