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Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of May 15 to 22, 2012.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-05/msg00116.html
Francois Berenger asked and Richard Jones suggested:
> What's the gold standard in OCaml to read/write
> compressed files?
>
> I found this: http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/camlzip/
>
> Wouldn't it be possible that the Marshall module
> had an option to allow compression of the marshalled
> values?
> Or is there a simple way to achieve this?
If it's for Unix, then just open a pipe to or from an external
compression filter, eg:
open Unix
open Printf
let () =
let output = "output.xz" in
let chan =
open_process_out (sprintf "xz --best > %s"
(Filename.quote output)) in
output_value chan 42;
let status = close_process_out chan in
(* some code here to check status was ok *)
()
(Also a good way to generate images from OCaml programs: pipe
to pnmto* programs).
Adrien Nader also replied:There are libarchive bindings by Sylvain Le Gall on the forge too. They're partial but already work for reading iirc, and writing shouldn't be a lot of work (if it hasn't been added since I last looked at it). That will potentially give xz, gzip, bzip2, tar, cpio and I don't know what else.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-05/msg00149.html
ygrek announced:
It is my pleasure to announce the multitude of (long overdue) releases
tonight :
ocaml-extunix 0.0.4
-------------------
ExtUnix provides thin bindings to various low-level system APIs which are
not covered by Unix module.
This release adds many new bindings and implements bigarray variants of some
functions (as a consequence
extunix now depends on bigarray). Many thanks to Goswin von Brederlow (who
was the driving force behind this
release), Andre Nathan and all previous (and future) contributors.
Get it at http://extunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/
ocaml-mysql 1.1.1
-----------------
Bindings to libmysqlclient. This release update build infrastructure tools
(OCamlMakefile, autotools, etc), provides
Windows build support (both for msvc and mingw), fixes OCaml 3.12
compatibility and implements a couple of new features.
Thanks go to Dmitry Grebeniuk and Hezekiah M. Carty.
More info and download links : http://ocaml-mysql.forge.ocamlcore.org/
ocaml-geoip 0.0.1
-----------------
Bindings to libGeoIP library to access offline database of geographical
information keyed by IP address. The bindings code
is generated by camlidl and hopefully provides a comprehensive coverage of
available C API.
Homepage : http://geoip.forge.ocamlcore.org/
ocaml-lzo 0.0.1, ocaml-snappy 0.0.1
-----------------------------------
Both these packages implement bindings to fast lossless
compression/decompression libraries (that generally favor speed
over compression ratio) and feature simple interface that operates on string
buffers.
Choose your poison : http://snappy.forge.ocamlcore.org/ or
http://lzo.forge.ocamlcore.org/
ocaml-winsvc 0.0.1
------------------
winsvc helps to turn OCaml program into Windows service. This is some old
(but working) code with hardcoded build scripts.
Drags out miserable existence at http://winsvc.forge.ocamlcore.org/
Thanks to Alp Mestan, we now include in the Caml Weekly News the links to the
recent posts from the ocamlcore planet blog at http://planet.ocamlcore.org/.
RegStab 2.0:
http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.cgi?contrib=706
ocaml-winsvc 0.0.1:
http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.cgi?contrib=814
ocaml-extunix 0.0.4 released:
https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=833
ocaml-lzo 0.0.1 release:
https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=838
OCaml Users and Developers conference 2012:
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/ocaml-users-and-developers-conference-2012/
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