Hello, Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of October 02 to 09, 2012.
1) OCaml 4.00.1 released 2) Macaque 0.6 3) Yypkg 1.6.0 4) Camlp5 6.07 compatible with OCaml 4.00.1 released 5) Mingw-builds 1.1 rc1 6) Other Caml News ======================================================================== 1) OCaml 4.00.1 released Archive: <https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-10/msg00021.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Damien Doligez announced: We have the pleasure of celebrating the birthdays of Denis Diderot by announcing the release ofOCaml version 4.00.1. This is mainly a bug-fix release, see the list of changes below. It is available here: <http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html> This is released as source for the time being, but the binary versions should be available soon. We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the packagers out there who make this easy to install for end users without recompiling. Happy hacking, -- Damien Doligez for the OCaml team. OCaml 4.00.1: ------------- Bug fixes: - PR#4019: better documentation of Str.matched_string - PR#5111: ocamldoc, heading tags inside spans tags is illegal in html - PR#5278: better error message when typing "make" - PR#5468: ocamlbuild should preserve order of parametric tags - PR#5563: harden Unix.select against file descriptors above FD_SETSIZE - PR#5690: "ocamldoc ... -text README" raises exception - PR#5700: crash with native-code stack backtraces under MacOS 10.8 x86-64 - PR#5707: AMD64 code generator: do not use r10 and r11 for parameter passing, as these registers can be destroyed by the dynamic loader - PR#5712: some documentation problems - PR#5715: configuring with -no-shared-libs breaks under cygwin - PR#5718: false positive on 'unused constructor' warning - PR#5719: ocamlyacc generates code that is not warning 33-compliant - PR#5725: ocamldoc output of preformatted code - PR#5727: emacs caml-mode indents shebang line in toplevel scripts - PR#5729: tools/untypeast.ml creates unary Pexp_tuple - PR#5731: instruction scheduling forgot to account for destroyed registers - PR#5735: %apply and %revapply not first class citizens - PR#5738: first class module patterns not handled by ocamldep - PR#5742: missing bound checks in Array.sub - PR#5744: ocamldoc error on "val virtual" - PR#5757: GC compaction bug (crash) - PR#5758: Compiler bug when matching on floats - PR#5761: Incorrect bigarray custom block size ** Hezekiah M. Carty then said: Thank you for the new release! For anyone looking to build the new release from source, ocamlbrew has been updated to install OCaml 4.00.1 by default: <https://github.com/hcarty/ocamlbrew> To give it a try with the default components (OCaml, findlib, odb.ml, oasis, utop, ocamlscript) run the following in a terminal: curl -kL <https://raw.github.com/hcarty/ocamlbrew/master/ocamlbrew-install> | bash That will build and install everything under $HOME/ocamlbrew. See README.md and RECIPES.md at the link above for build requirements and other configuration examples. ** Jonathan Protzenko also said: The self-installer has been updated, it is available at <http://protz.github.com/ocaml-installer/>. As usual, if you want to help improve the installer script for Windows, I'll gladly accept any patches. ======================================================================== 2) Macaque 0.6 Archive: <https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-10/msg00023.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Gabriel Scherer announced: Macaque is the result of a student project aiming to develop a type-safe and composable way to interact with SQL databases from OCaml. We propose a form of "comprehension syntax" that allow to modularily create queries in a strongly-typed and relatively principled way. ## Release 0.6 After a few years of mild continuous development, people have requested at several occasions that release be made. I therefore tag the current state of Macaque as "0.6". You can get an archive from the forge: <https://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/download.php/1027/macaque-0.6.tar.gz> You can also get the new version from darcs: darcs get --tag 0.6 <http://forge.ocamlcore.org/anonscm/darcs/macaque/macaque> Thanks to everyone I have interacted with during this development; thanks to Vincent Balat and Anastasia Gornostaeva for their feedback. Thanks in particular to Jacques-Pascal Deplaix for his frequent feedback and occasional suggestions and contributions. ## More Details Macaque was initially developed at the PPS lab in Paris, under the supervision of Jérôme Vouillon. The current development mode could be described as "coinductive": things get done in reaction to user requests or needs. The technical limitations of Macaque are the following: - It only support PostGreSQL (from lack of time to develop other backends). - Each feature of the SQL language must be considered and added separately, with the right typing; this aspect makes it structurally less complete than direct (but less composable) embedding of full SQL queries like the parent project PG'OCaml does, so the subset of SQL supported by Macaque is smaller -- but you can help extending it! <http://pgocaml.forge.ocamlcore.org/> - You have to learn the comprehension-like syntax used by Macaque (it should be possible to write a frontend using the SQL syntax, but this hasn't been done yet). - The documentation *does* exist, but is not very good. It's the README that you can see at <http://darcs.ocamlcore.org/repos/macaque/README> and patches to improve it are welcome The version number below 1.0 highlights that Macaque is still an evolving project with no strong production-readiness guarantees, yet a number substantially higher than 0.1 indicates that it has seen several users and probably fixed the most glaring issues with the current feature set. (I would have initially chosen 0.3 or 0.7 as a version number. Like most people. '6' is an oft-overlooked number, a factorial and the product of the two first prime numbers. Go 6 and 8!) ======================================================================== 3) Yypkg 1.6.0 Archive: <https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-10/msg00024.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Adrien Nader announced: I'm happy to announce the release of Yypkg 1.6. Yypkg is a small, fast, platform-agnostic package manager. It can be used to manage any directory. It is built to help cross-compilation setups and works both for and on Windows. Functionality changes: - sherpa, a higher-level tool which can download packages from a mirror and handles dependencies, is now working and tested again - sherpa_gen, a companion tool to generate databases which sherpa understands is shorter and faster and able to output the list of packages as an HTML page Yypkg is hosted on the OCaml forge at: <http://yypkg.forge.ocamlcore.org> It can be download from: <http://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/download.php/1028/yypkg-1.5.0.tar.gz> ======================================================================== 4) Camlp5 6.07 compatible with OCaml 4.00.1 released Archive: <https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-10/msg00035.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Daniel de Rauglaudre announced: Camlp5 6.07, compatible with OCaml 4.00.1 has been released. Camlp5 is a syntactic preprocessor for OCaml. Like Camlp4 except that it works and is fast. Download at: <http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp5/> ======================================================================== 5) Mingw-builds 1.1 rc1 Archive: <https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-10/msg00041.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Adrien Nader announced: I'm happy to announce the release of mingw-builds 1.1 rc1 (1.0 "stable" has been skipped). Mingw-builds is a build environment for windows with all the benefits of using a package manager. The website for the current version, along with documentation and installation information is at: <http://notk.org/~adrien/yypkg/latest/index.html> This release uses the new 1.6.1 version of yypkg which includes the "sherpa" companion tool and uses its concept of "repository": a set of packages that is hosted on a web server, with dependency information. The next step will concentrate on the native windows 32bit toolchain (i.e. running on windows) and Qt with a target for early november and the one after will include work for OCaml. ======================================================================== 6) Other Caml News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** From the ocamlcore planet blog: 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/>. two simple tips to speed up ocaml compilation: <https://mancoosi.org/~abate/two-simple-tips-speed-ocaml-compilation> Godi for Windows: <https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/wodi/> JavaLib and Sawja 2.2.2/1.4: <http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.cgi?contrib=319> Camlp5 6.07: <http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.cgi?contrib=592> Macaque 0.6 released: <https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=860> yypkg 1.6 released: <https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=861> OCaml 4.00.1 released: <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.00/> Am I a constructive mathematician?: <http://math.andrej.com/2012/10/03/am-i-a-constructive-mathematician/> ======================================================================== Old cwn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you happen to miss a CWN, you can send me a message (alan.schm...@polytechnique.org) and I'll mail it to you, or go take a look at the archive (<http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/>) or the RSS feed of the archives (<http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/cwn.rss>). 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