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Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of February 16 to 23, 2016.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-02/msg00074.html
Simon Cruanes announced:
I released bigstring.0.1 yesterday, a small module for dealing with
bigarrays of chars. It used to be part of containers, but is useful on
its own for low level IO, mirage, etc.; hence the split. The license is
BSD-2-clauses.
Code, issues, etc. can be found at https://github.com/c-cube/ocaml-bigstring ,
and contributions and criticism are welcome.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-02/msg00085.html
Sébastien Hinderer asked and Richard Jones replied:
> With Coccinelle we distribute your Dumper module.
>
> I just noticed that the version we have is quite old and produces
> warnings when compiled.
>
> Is it okay if we distribute a modified version of the code to fix those
> warnings?
Yes. I'm not sure if it was ever licensed properly, but I'm willing
now to (re?)license it under a liberal 3 clause, no advertising
requirement, BSD license:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD?rd=Licensing/BSD#New_BSD_.28no_advertising.2C_3_clause.29
This is pretty close to "do what you like with it". I'm CC-ing this
to caml-list to put this in the public record.
> Is there a more recent version of the code available?
Not as far as I know, but if you search for "dumper.mli" you will see
many copies in different places, so I suppose you'll have to go check
if people have added useful features that you want.
Sébastien Hinderer said, Gabriel Scherer replied, and Richard Jones said:
Sébastien Hinderer:
>> Okay. I think we are fine with what we have, at the moment.
>>
>> So there were two warnings, one about an unused "open Printf" and one
>> about an unused variable.
>>
>> The attached version of the module fixes them.
>>
>> I may also get rid of the "open Obj" statement and qualify all the
>> references to this module as I fnd this style more clear.
Gabriel Scherer:
> This "dump" code has lived on in Extlib (to which Richard
> participated, I believe), and is also part of Batteries. I know that
> ygrek, Extlib's current maintainers, has done some fixes to it (I
> think we ported them into Batteries), so you may want to look there.
Richard Jones:
Ah I see you are right. I actually checked extlib before posting
that, but forgot that it was not a standalone module but added to the
'Std' module, here:
https://github.com/ygrek/ocaml-extlib/blob/master/src/std.ml
What I said about the licensing of my contributions still applies
(also 3 clause BSD & LGPL are compatible, so that's fine).
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