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Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of October 07 to 14, 2008.

1. OCaml Batteries Included alpha 1

Archive: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/e33a5a33d7104282#

We're happy to inform you that the first alpha version of OCaml
Batteries Included has just been released. You may find the source on
the Forge [1], as well as the release notes [2],  and you can browse the
documentation online, including a detailed presentation of what OCaml
Batteries Included is all about [3].  A GODI package has also been
uploaded for OCaml 3.10 .

The list of features is a tad too long for detailing it here. Let's just
say that there are new or improved data structures, i/o, unicode ropes,
syntax extensions, primitives for invoking some of the tools of the
toolchain, etc.

It's alpha-level code, so use with caution, and not all the features we
have in mind have been implemented yet. On the other hand, any form of
feedback is greatly appreciated.

[1] http://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/?group_id=17&release_id=44 
[2] http://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=44
[3] http://forge.ocamlcore.org/docman/?group_id=17
			

I've made available the first draft Debian packages of batteries
included, you can find them at
http://people.debian.org/~zack/ocaml-batteries/. More info in this
blog post:
http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/10/ocaml_batteries_included_debian_packages/
			

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