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Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of 27 July to 03 August, 2004.
Just a second to let you know that our realtime PLC and NC application is working great. We are currently in the final integration phase for our first prototype control system: a 2-axis automatic glass cutting table. We currently support Parker Hannifin SBC servodrives and motors, but drivers can be written to support any other peripheral. We are amazed to have achieved a 10ms latency with a 2MB memory usage and a couple percent CPU usage on a Celeron.
Otags 3.08.0.1 is there: http://perso.rd.francetelecom.fr/alvarado/soft/otags-3.08.0.1.tar.gz Notes: 1/ Using a kludge to cope with Lexing.postion, will disappear, promised ;-) 2/ Native camlp4 broken 3/ Feedback wellcome 4/ Ciao.Cuihtlauac Alvarado added:
Tip: If (like me) you install ocaml by doing something like cp ocaml-3.08.0.tar.gz /usr/local/src cd /usr/local/src tar -zxvf ocaml-3.08.0.tar.gz cd ocaml-3.08.0 ./configure make world opt opt.opt install Then Otags will break at compile time, because an old plexer.cmx (back from ocaml 3.07) will still lay in /usr/local/lib/ocaml/camlp4 You'll have to rm /usr/local/lib/ocaml/camlp4/lexer.cmx Then otags will compile fineCuihtlauac Alvarado then announced:
Installation was bugged in otags 3.08.0.1, this is fixed in 3.08.0.2 http://perso.rd.francetelecom.fr/alvarado/soft/otags-3.08.0.2.tar.gz
I wrote a Wiki in OCaml. It took me two days, and was done solely because I needed a Wiki for an OCaml project, and it would be nice to have a Wiki actually written in OCaml. In other words, complete wheel reinvention :-) You can download source (GPL) here: http://sandbox.merjis.com/_dist/ You can play with the Wiki here: http://sandbox.merjis.com/ Enjoy ...
I've been slow to follow through on my threats to release an update to the Pagoda Core Foundation, and I apologize for that. My day job interrupted? in the immortal words of Sascha in the classic film _Casablanca_, "Yvonne, I love you, but he pays me." Once again, I tuned the existing API somewhat. Mostly in places where I hope few people are likely to tread. I fixed a few bugs, and I made some performance tweaks to some obscure corners of the library, e.g. [Cf_gadget]. I also added some new modules (see below). I upgraded to Ocaml 3.08 recently, and the library works fine with that version. It should still compile with 3.07+2, but I can't promise that the next release won't use the cool new classless object feature in 3.08 (omg! that is totally wizard! thanks, inria!) As before, the new distribution is available at either of the following URL's: http://www.wetware.com/jhw/src/pagoda/cf-0.3.tar.bz2 http://www.wetware.com/jhw/src/pagoda/cf-0.3.tar.gz And the online documentation (generated by ocamldoc) can be found here: http://www.wetware.com/jhw/src/pagoda/doc/cf/ (new location!) There is still no programmer's guide. If I learn that people are using this library, then maybe I'll write one. (All serious development offers from commercial publishers will be seriously considered.) ===== Pagoda Core Foundation (cf) library ===== Highlighted features include: - Functional streams and stream processors (extended). - Functional bootstrapped skew-binomial heap. - Functional red-black binary tree (associative array). - Functional sets and maps based on red-black binary tree. - Functional real-time catenable deque. - Functional LL(x) parsing using state-exception monad. - Functional lazy deterministic finite automaton (DFA). - Functional lexical analyzer (using lazy DFA and monadic parser). - Functional substring list manipulation (message buffer chains). - Gregorian calendar date manipulation. - Standard time manipulation. - System time in Temps Atomique Internationale (TAI). - Unicode transcoding. - Extended socket interface (supports IPv6 and UDP w/multicast). - Universal resource identifier (URI) manipulation. - I/O event multiplexing (with Unix.select). Note: see the ISSUES file for a list of open problems in this release. ===== Required Components ===== This library requires the following external components: - Objective Caml (v3.07+2 or newer) - Findlib (tested with v0.8.1 and v1.0.4) Principle development was on Mac OS X 10.3. The final version of this library also compiled successfully and passed all self-tests without warnings on Suse Linux 9.0 for x86-32. Other platforms with POSIX-like environments should require only a minimal porting effort. One major open issue: the extended socket interface is broken under WIN32. (The author invites help porting the library to other environments.) ===== Version 0.3 ===== Highlights of the changes: + Rewrite the scheduler in [Cf_gadget] so that it sucks less wind. The kernel is now built entirely out of mutable structures, and we got rid of the 'pin' type because we don't represent wires internally as integer keys in a map. + Added [Cf_journal], a foundation for extensible diagnostic event journaling inspired by Log4j from the Apache Foundation. (Look for a full suite of extensions to be sold separately.) + Removed the [?xf] optional exception function from the [Cf_lexer.create] function. Use a derived cursor class with an [error] method that can be overridden for this purpose. + Added [Cf_scan_parser], which scans an input sequence using the [Scanf] module in the standard library. + Minor convenience functions added to [Cf_parser]. + Other bug fixes. (See CHANGES file.)
Ocaml-MinGW-Maxi is binary distribution for OCaml on Windows based on the MinGW toolchain. It contains the OCaml compiler and some precompiled add-on libraries. The 0.2-alpha release is the first one compiled from the offical ocaml-3.08.0 sources. http://lasagne.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/omm/ Changes since 0.1: Updated OCaml (3.08.0) Updated Lablgtk (2.4.0) ** bytecode compilation is broken (link errors). ** ** some missing gtk files are included now ** Some new modules are added: calendar, HereDoc, regexp-pp-ocaml, extlib
The ExtLib Release 1.2 is now available. ExtLib is a project aiming at providing a complete - yet small - standard library for the OCaml programming language. The purpose of this library is to add new functions to OCaml Standard Library modules, to modify some functions in order to get better performances or more safety (tail-rec) but also to provide new modules which should be useful for the average OCaml programmer Changes are : - compatibility for OCaml 3.08 (and backward compatible with 3.07) - simplified IO module + support for binary files - added the Unzip module : pure OCaml implementation of ZLib inflate algorithm - some fixes and improvements The documentation has also been updated. Everything and more at http://ocaml-lib.sf.net
I have compiled OCaml 3.08 on Mac OS X. I have X11 installed, including the SDK with the header files and whatnot. When I configured the OCaml compilation, it did find my X installation and said it would be using it and installing the graphics module. But: $ ocamlmktop -o mytop graphics.cma $ ./mytop Objective Caml version 3.08.0 # Graphics.open_graph "";; Exception: Graphics.Graphic_failure "Cannot open display ". I get the same exception when I try to put it in a file and compile and run it, whether compiled with the bytecode compiler or the native code compiler. So I know this isn't much to go on but I really am not sure what to do from here to get the Graphics to work so if anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.Richard Jones and Daniel Bünzli suggested, and Michael Benfield answered:
> Maybe you didn't open X11.app (i.e. launch the X server). Also if you > try to do that from Terminal.app you may need to set the environment > variable $DISPLAY to ":0.0". This solved it, thanks. $DISPLAY wasn't set on my machine.
Dear Caml riders, I would like to announce the first release of Micmatch. Micmatch is an extension of the pattern matching of OCaml for matching strings against regular expressions, following the style of ocamllex regexps. Here is an example of an interactive session: # RE digit = ['0'-'9'] ;; # RE letter = ['a'-'z' 'A'-'Z'] ;; # RE word = letter (letter | '_' | digit)* ;; # RE space = [' ' '\t' '\n' '\r'] ;; # let say_hello l text = match l, text with (_, RE _* "name" space* "=" space* (word as name) space* ";") | (name :: _, _) -> print_endline ("Hello " ^ name) | _ -> invalid_arg "say_hello" ;; val say_hello : string list -> string -> unit = <fun> # say_hello ["Joe"; "Jack"] "id=123; name=Martin; end";; Hello Martin - : unit = () # say_hello ["Joe"; "Jack"] "id=123; name= ; end";; Hello Joe - : unit = () Documentation can be found here: http://martin.jambon.free.fr/micmatch.html The package can be downloaded directly from here: http://martin.jambon.free.fr/micmatch.tar.gz
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