From: David Mentre <David.Mentre@inria.fr> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News Date: 03 Jul 2001 14:14:06 +0200 Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, from 27th of June to 3rd of July, 2001. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) ocamldap: ocaml-ldap binding 2) FaCiLe, a Functional Constraint Library over integer finite domain 3) A preliminary Caml/Java interface ============================================================= 1) ocamldap: ocaml-ldap binding ------------------------------------------------------------- Miles Egan announced: I've cobbled together a simple ocaml-ldap binding and I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone else might find it useful but mostly to solicit comments and suggestions. Right now only searches are implemented but I plan to add modify and delete functionality in the next release. You can get it here: http://www.caddr.com/code/ocamldap-0.1.tar.gz. Please let me know if you have any trouble getting it to work. ============================================================= 2) FaCiLe, a Functional Constraint Library over integer finite domain ------------------------------------------------------------- Pascal Brisset & Nicolas Barnier announced: It is our pleasure to announce the release 1.0 of FaCiLe, a Functional Constraint Library over integer finite domain written with OCaml 3.01. This library is "Open Source" and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Beside the overall gain in performance and bug fixes, FaCiLe release 1.0 features: - New mode for optimization - Optimization now embedded in goals to specify easily complex search procedures - Variables can now be named - Improved handling of big arithmetic constraints - New ad hoc "modulo" constraint - The documentation has been updated and improved - Examples added FaCiLe distribution includes sources, examples and a generic Makefile, as well as the documentation, available at: ftp://ftp.recherche.enac.fr/pub/facile There is also a web site where general information can be found: http://www.recherche.enac.fr/opti/facile Comments, questions and bug reports are welcome and should be sent to mailto:facile@recherche.enac.fr. ============================================================= 3) A preliminary Caml/Java interface ------------------------------------------------------------- Xavier Leroy announced: A preliminary Caml/Java interface (via the Java Native Interface) is available at http://caml.inria.fr/distrib/camljava-0.1.tar.gz This is a JNI-level interface: it lets you do pretty much everything, but is not type safe and a bit heavy in places. A higher-level interface providing a more direct, type-safe mapping between Java classes and Caml classes, is planned at some point. ============================================================= d. -- David.Mentre@inria.fr Opinions expressed here are only mine.