From: David Mentre <David.Mentre@inria.fr> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Attn: Development Editor Date: 20 Nov 2001 16:06:07 +0100 Hello, Here is the latests Caml Weekly News, week 14 to 20 november, 2001. Summary: 1) First source release of Ocamlnet 2) OCamlCVS pre-release 2 3) OCamldoc pre-release 2 4) Debian package for CamlIDL ====================================================================== 1) First source release of Ocamlnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerd Stolpmann announced: the ocamlnet project has finally released its first tarball: See http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocamlnet (There is also a mirror of the tarball at ocaml-programming.de: http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/ocamlnet-0.91.tar.gz) This release focuses on stabilizing the new CGI interface called netcgi, but includes also a number of other goodies. The code was mainly written by myself and by Patrick Doane. - ocamlnet contains the netstring library (previously distributed separately). Besides some bugfixes, a number of new modules have been added: * Netchannels: an OO-encapsulation of in_channel/out_channel with special support for so-called transactional channels (that buffer data until they are committed) It is planned that the other modules dealing with I/O streams are rewritten with netchannels, but this is currently not the case. * Netdate: Parsing and printing date and time in various formats. Thanks to Nicolas George who contributed this module. * Netaddress: The datatype for email addresses - ocamlnet contains the new CGI interface netcgi. It is simple to use, and supports all important CGI features, including file uploads and cookies. In contrast to the old interface, netcgi is object oriented, and it is possible to have several instances of the CGI connection at the same time - not useful for classic CGI, but we want to support better architectures in the future (e.g. fastcgi) while retaining the current interface. - ocamlnet contains a POP3 client. It works, but the interface should be considered as experimental because we are not sure about the future direction. Of course, we would like to add more network protocols than just CGI and POP3. I could personally contribute a Telnet client, and a HTTP client, but this makes only sense if more developers join the ocamlnet team. So: If you have an idea for a network implementation, and want to discuss it, please join the ocamlnet mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19774 Last but not least, ocamlnet is now under the zlib/libpng license which is similar to the MIT license used by netstring. ====================================================================== 2) OCamlCVS pre-release 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maxence Guesdon announced: A new pre-release of OCamlCVS is available at http://www.maxence-g.net/tools.html Changes include more cvs commands supported (including some tag management), one or two bug fixes, and the command line now accepts more than one directory. ====================================================================== 3) OCamldoc pre-release 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maxence Guesdon announced: A new pre-release of OCamldoc is available at http://www.maxence-g.net/tools.html Changes include better html, a texinfo generator by Olivier Andrieu, bug fixes, and last but not least comments after elements (val, type, ...) are also accepted. The user manual has not yet been updated. ====================================================================== 4) Debian package for CamlIDL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefano Zacchiroli announced: I announce that Debian package of CamlIDL was released. Currently two binary package generated, namely camlidl and camlidl-doc, are still in incoming and aren't yet part of the debian Sid distribution, but in next days they are added to the official Debian Sid archive. In the meantime if you have a Debian and you want to install the packages, you can go to http://incoming.debian.org/ and download them. ====================================================================== -- David.Mentre@inria.fr Opinions expressed here are only mine.