Hello
Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of July 10 to 17, 2007.
I am happy to announce a new release of Camlp4s 4.02.
Camlp4s is the classical Camlp4 compatible with all versions of OCaml
from 3.08.1 to 3.11.
Main page and download at:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/
What is new:
Pretty print
* a new system of pretty print of ocaml programs:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/opretty.html
* an original library module for pretty printing data and programs:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/pretty.html
Parsing
* a full documentation of streams parsers, including 3 new features:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/parsers.html
* lexers: a short syntax for parsers of streams of type char:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/lexers.html
* a documentation for purely functional streams and parsers:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/fparsers.html
Other
* a documentation for the extensible functions:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/extfun.html
* directive "pragma" allowing evaluations at parse time (experimental):
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/doc/html/pragma.html
Stefano Zacchiroli asked and Daniel de Rauglaudre answered:
> If you choose to rename camlp4s executables and libraries however, users
> will be able to install both camlp4s and the official camlp4. Can you
> please consider this option?
Ok, I made a new release : 4.03.
You can change the name of all commands and libraries by using the
parameter "-name" of "configure" (default = camlp4).
For example:
./configure -name camlp5
would name the commands, files and manual pages: camlp5, camlp5o, camlp5r,
camlp5r.cma, camlp5.1 and so on, and the library would be installed in
a subdirectory camlp5 of the ocaml library directory.
Up to you to choose the name you prefer.
Stefano Zacchiroli then said and Daniel de Rauglaudre answered:
> Well, I think the -name argument is already a useful step. I just asked
> for a suggested name to avoid a plethora of unknown different names. In
> Debian, JFYI, I went for "camlp5" as it seems to me it's a name you like
> and that it's welcome by the community.
Ok, I made a release (4.04) of camlp5. Download at:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp5/
No fundamental changes, except renamings, in all files.
I'm working on an XML-RPC client library for OCaml called XmlRpc-Light.
It's very small and simple, and it only depends on Xml-Light and
Ocamlnet so it's easy to compile and install. It's still under early
development, and currently is only a client, though the pieces are there
to build a server as well. Any suggestions, contributions, or criticism
are gladly accepted.
Project page:
http://code.google.com/p/xmlrpc-light/
Main module:
http://xmlrpc-light.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/XmlRpc.ml
http://xmlrpc-light.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/XmlRpc.mli
Simple example:
let rpc = new XmlRpc.client "http://localhost:8000" in
let result = rpc#call "echo" [`String "hello!"] in
print_endline (XmlRpc.dump result)
Complex example (wrapper for WordPress blog API):
http://xmlrpc-light.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/wordpress/WordPress.ml
PDF documentation:
http://xmlrpc-light.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/xmlrpc-light/latex/doc.pdf
The license is LGPL with the special exception for linking, same as
Xml-Light. Thanks to Nicolas Cannasse for writing Xml-Light and for
letting me use an adapted version of his Base64 codec from ExtLib.
Thanks also to Gerd Stolpmann for the amazingly capable Ocamlnet
library, of which I'm barely beginning to scratch the surface.
I am happy to announce the release of OcaIDE: a new Eclipse plug-in for O'Caml. Please visit this site for more information, screenshots, and to install it: http://ocaml.eclipse.ortsa.comLater on, Nicolas Bros announced:
Version 1.0.1 of OcaIDE is now available. For a list of changes, see the web site: http://ocaml.eclipse.ortsa.com
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