Hello, Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of February 16 to 23, 2016.
1) bigstring 0.1 2) Coccinelle and the Dumper module 3) Other OCaml News ======================================================================== 1) bigstring 0.1 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. ======================================================================== 2) Coccinelle and the Dumper module 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). ======================================================================== 3) Other OCaml News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** From the ocamlcore planet blog: Thanks to Alp Mestan, we now include in the OCaml Weekly News the links to the recent posts from the ocamlcore planet blog at <http://planet.ocaml.org/>. Functional Jobs: Full-Stack Developer (Haskell/PureScript/ES6) at Canopy Education Inc. (Full-time) <https://functionaljobs.com/jobs/8893-full-stack-developer-haskell-purescript-es6-at-canopy-education-inc> OCamlCore Forge News: OCaml EFL 1.17.0 released <https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=929> Github OCaml jobs: Full Time: Software Developer (Functional Programming) at Jane Street in New York, NY; London, UK; Hong Kong <http://jobs.github.com/positions/0a9333c4-71da-11e0-9ac7-692793c00b45> Psellos: Twenty-Four Puzzle OCaml iOS App <http://psellos.com/2016/02/2016.02.i-met-up-with-the-king.html> ======================================================================== 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>). If you also wish to receive it every week by mail, you may subscribe online at <http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/caml-news-weekly/> . ======================================================================== -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 Monthly Athmospheric CO₂ (2016-01, Mauna Loa Obs.): 402.52
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