Fwd: Standard ML in Fedora and in GSoC

[Buddhike Kurera]

Hello,
An idea found on the summer-coding list, please forward if you have
any idea, comment.
Thanks for the support !

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Dear All,

Buddhike Kurera suggested me to write my idea and send it to this mailing list.

I am a functional programming advocate and would like to see Standard
ML projects in Fedora. Both a better infrastructure for the language
and actual projects that are implemented in SML.

For a short introduction why SML would be useful, check my blog entry:

http://www.buday-rd.com/on-standard-ml

I would add the following: as far as I know, daemons are written in
Python nowadays in Fedora, with a possible rewriting in C if speed and
memory footprint is critical. SML
could do both, as the sml/nj and the polyml compiler has an
interactive loop like
Python for creative programming, but the mlton whole-program
optimizing compiler generates executables with speed comparable to C
object files. It has a mathematical definition so it is easier to
argument about a program than in Python or C.

The first step could be proper packaging for various architectures and
platforms, and cross-compilation for these. mlton, polyml and mosml
has packaging but I did not find packaging for sml/nj.

The next step could be choosing a daemon task to write from scratch or
an existing one to rewrite.

I would appreciate your comments and questions on this.

- Gergely
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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:00:15PM +0530, Buddhike Kurera wrote:
> Hello,
> An idea found on the summer-coding list, please forward if you have
> any idea, comment.

More ML is better.  Take a look at this link for the gory details of
how to submit packages:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Rich.

[Iain Arnell]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Richard W.M. Jones  wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:00:15PM +0530, Buddhike Kurera wrote:
> > Hello,
> > An idea found on the summer-coding list, please forward if you have
> > any idea, comment.
>
> More ML is better.  Take a look at this link for the gory details of
> how to submit packages:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Note that there's already a review request[1] for smlnj, but it seems
to have stalled - no progress since October last year.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670088