From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8677BBCA for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:48:42 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJJHwkdQRFuwh2dsb2JhbACQXAEBAQgKKZkV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,401,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="9548539" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Feb 2008 13:48:42 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m1PCmgoh008331 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:48:42 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJJHwkdQRFuwh2dsb2JhbACQXAEBAQgKKZkV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,401,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="9548536" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Feb 2008 13:48:41 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JTcl6-00058K-VZ for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:48:41 +0000 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:48:40 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: ANNOUNCE: OCaml in Fedora & Red Hat Message-ID: <20080225124840.GA18630@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47C2B92A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ocamldoc:01 camlp:01 camlimages:01 findlib:01 gtk:01 ocamlnet:01 emacs:01 cduce:01 mldonkey:01 ocaml-mysql:01 ocamldsort:01 wiki:01 subset:01 This is an update about the state of OCaml in Fedora, one of a very occasional series (the last update that I posted here was over 6 months ago). Fedora 8 was released at the end of last year with OCaml 3.10.0 and support for half a dozen or so OCaml libraries. Fedora releases happen about every 6 months. Fedora 9 will be released in a few months, shipping with OCaml 3.10.1[1] and the following packages: ocaml base OCaml, ocamldoc, camlp4, etc. ocaml-SDL SDL ocaml-calendar Calendar (based on version 2.0) ocaml-camlimages CAMLimages ocaml-cryptokit Cryptokit ocaml-csv CSV support ocaml-curl ocurl ocaml-curses Curses support ocaml-dbus D-Bus (freedesktop.org) ocaml-expat Expat (XML) ocaml-extlib Extlib ocaml-fileutils Fileutils ocaml-findlib Findlib ocaml-lablgl OpenGL ocaml-lablgtk GTK2+ ocaml-libvirt Libvirt (virtualization) ocaml-ocamlnet OCamlNet ocaml-pcre Perl-compatible regular expressions ocaml-ssl SSL ocaml-ulex Ulex ocaml-xml-light XML parsing freetennis Game emacs-common-tuareg tuareg-mode for emacs and xemacs The following packages are also waiting to be accepted into Fedora 9, so either they'll be in the basic version or will be available as external packages and be pushed to Fedora 10: cduce waiting for upstream release(?) felix waiting for upstream release mldonkey ocaml-ast-analyze being rewritten(?) ocaml-cairo ocaml-camlidl ocaml-camlp5 ocaml-camomile some license issues to resolve first ocaml-cil ocaml-gsl ocaml-lacaml ocaml-mysql ocamldsort ocamljava experimental, needs a user/champion before going in ocaml-odbc experimental, only partially builds ocaml-perl4caml ocaml-pgocaml ocaml-postgresql ocaml-pxp ocaml-sexplib ocaml-sqlite ocaml-type-conv ocaml-xmlrpc-light ocaml-zip You can try out early versions of Fedora 9 right now: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide As for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5) we currently support OCaml 3.09.3 and a subset of the first list of packages above. As ever, people interested in long-term (7 years!) stable commercial support should contact me with their requirements. Rich. [1] Perhaps 3.10.2 if released in time and there are no major incompatibilities with libraries. -- Richard Jones Red Hat