From:	 David Mentre <David.Mentre@inria.fr>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News
Date:	 10 Jul 2001 09:42:23 +0200
Cc:	 Ching-Tsun Chou <ctchou@mipos2.intel.com>,
	 Jean-Marc Eber <jeanmarc.eber@lexifi.com>,
	 =?iso-8859-1?q?Judica=EBl?= Courant <Judicael.Courant@lri.fr>,
	 Luc MAZARDO <Luc.Mazardo@cvf.fr>, kragen@pobox.com (Kragen Sitaker)

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, from July 4 to 10, 2001.

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  Table of Contents
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 1) PXP 1.1, the "polymorphic XML parser" for O'Caml

 2) An offer to package your O'Caml library in RPM

 3) New version of the O'Caml Runtime Environment

 4) a library for reading, verifying, modifying and generating Java
    class files

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 1) PXP 1.1, the "polymorphic XML parser" for O'Caml
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Gerd Stolpmann announced:

I have just released the next stable release 1.1 of PXP, the "polymorphic XML
parser" for O'caml. Besides many small improvements and code optimizations,
this version has built-in support for XML namespaces. For a list of changes,
see the announcement at

http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/pxp

which also contains download links etc.

As with every stable release, this version has passed numerous tests, so that I
do not expect major problems. However, if you encounter a problem, do not
hesitate to contact me.


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 2) An offer to package your O'Caml library in RPM
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Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com> proposed:

I've been using RPM quite a bit at work and I've been creating a lot of new
packges and it occurred to me that it might it easier for new ocaml users to use
some of the more popular ocaml libraries if they were available in RPM format.
So, I'd like to offer to help any authors of such libraries to package their
libraries in RPM form.  Please just let me know if you're interested.
[...]
P.S.:  I've uploaded a new version of my ocamldap bindings to the link database.
They're still pretty unsophisticated, but add/modify/delete work now.


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 3) New version of the O'Caml Runtime Environment
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Gerd Stolpmann announced:

The O'Caml Runtime Environment bases now on GNU libtool, and it is now more
independent from the operating system (see my previous posting:
http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200106/msg00158.html). However, it currently only
works for ELF-based systems (but a class of systems is better than a single
system).

The URL is now 
http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/ocamlre/

You'll find the sources and an RPM for Linux there.

And the full announcement is there:
http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200107/msg00050.html

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 4) a library for reading, verifying, modifying and generating Java
    class files
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Tatsurou Sekiguchi announced:

I would like to announce the availability of a library written in
ocaml for reading, verifying, modifying and generating Java class
files. The source code is quite compact (about 6500 lines of
code). Two sample applications are included: a disassembler and a code
obfuscater that replaces each identifier such as class and method
names to that of one or two letters in a consistent manner. All the
source code is avaiable at the URL:

http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/cocoa/javatool100.tar.gz

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-- 
 David.Mentre@inria.fr
 Opinions expressed here are only mine.