[Caml-list] [ANN] Bisect_ppx 1.3.0 – code coverage for OCaml

[Caml-list] [ANN] Bisect_ppx 1.3.0 – code coverage for OCaml

[Anton Bachin]

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce release 1.3.0 of Bisect_ppx, the OCaml code
coverage tool. Bisect_ppx generates nice reports, showing which parts of
your code are not tested:

https://github.com/aantron/bisect_ppx

See the release changelog:

https://github.com/aantron/bisect_ppx/releases/tag/1.3.0

This release improves compatibility with Jbuilder. Instructions are
available here:

https://github.com/aantron/bisect_ppx/blob/master/doc/advanced.md#Jbuilder


We have also changed the license from GPL 3.0 to the considerably more
permissive MPL 2.0. MPL allows Bisect_ppx to be incorporated into
proprietary projects. Basically, the only thing users have to do is
publish Bisect_ppx files if

1. they have been modified, and
2. they, or a project incorporating them, is being released.

For publishing, it is sufficient to contribute back to the project, host
a public fork (e.g. on GitHub), or simply include in your larger
project, if that project is open-source.

MPL 2.0 allows private use of modified Bisect_ppx. In practice, you
generally wouldn't release code instrumented with Bisect_ppx anyway, so
this means you can use Bisect_ppx as if it was under a typical
fully-permissive license without worrying about any copyleft
requirements.


If you are a user of the Bisect_ppx Ocamlbuild plugin, you should depend
on the new bisect_ppx-ocamlbuild OPAM package. It contains an ocamlfind
package of the same name, which is a replacement for the current
bisect_ppx.ocamlbuild. bisect_ppx.ocamlbuild will be removed in a future
release.

The Ocamlbuild plugin remains dedicated to the public domain.


Happy testing!

- The maintainers of Bisect