[Caml-list] Pycaml

[Caml-list] Pycaml

[Thomas Fischbacher]

Dear Camels,

I've just made updated Pycaml packages available under:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~doctom/software/pycaml/index.html

Note that this now contains a module Pycaml.Nicerpy which is
intended to export only functionality that comes with
interfaces we feel reasonably good about. (Parts of the
Pycaml module - unfortunately some which may actually
be used by third parties - actually feel quite a bit
"weedy".)

The web page shows some examples demonstrating the use
of Pycaml.Nicerpy.

-- 
best regards,
Thomas Fischbacher
t.fischbacher@soton.ac.uk

[Caml-list] pycaml

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dear all,

Does anybody here know about pycaml's maintainance status, please?
Being involved in a project that depends on it, I'd be happy to
participate to its maintainance but am not sure how to do since it's not
clear to me who maintains the project currently, if there is someone
maintaining it at all.

More generally speaking, is there interest in bridging OCaml and Python?
Are other solutions (perhaps more maintained) than pycaml arond?

Thanks for any feedback!
Sébastien.

Re: [Caml-list] pycaml

[Drup]

Are we talking about http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycaml/ ?

I'm surprised the project actually works at all. The last version is 
from 2004, and iirc, it was already not working 4 years ago.

I'm pretty sure you can adopt it. The work to update it may be 
significant. As far as I (and opam) knows, there are no other choices 
currently.
I think Jeremy Yallop had plans for pytypes, similar to 
https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-ctypes but for python.

Le 05/03/2015 12:17, Sébastien Hinderer a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> Does anybody here know about pycaml's maintainance status, please?
> Being involved in a project that depends on it, I'd be happy to
> participate to its maintainance but am not sure how to do since it's not
> clear to me who maintains the project currently, if there is someone
> maintaining it at all.
>
> More generally speaking, is there interest in bridging OCaml and Python?
> Are other solutions (perhaps more maintained) than pycaml arond?
>
> Thanks for any feedback!
> Sébastien.
>

Re: [Caml-list] pycaml

[John Whitington]

Dear Sébastien,

Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> More generally speaking, is there interest in bridging OCaml and Python?
> Are other solutions (perhaps more maintained) than pycaml arond?

Unmaintained, and entirely special-purpose, but this vector graphics 
renderer, which I wrote a long time ago, links an OCaml binary to a 
wxpython GUI, sending ocaml-rendered fragments over a pipe, and mouse 
clicks etc back. It seemed to work fine, but it didn't have a general 
purpose ocaml-python data bridge.

https://github.com/johnwhitington/coherence-renderer

Screenshot: http://coherentpdf.com/renderer.png

See the camlpy.ml and mltalk.py files. It can be started either by 
running the OCaml or the Python part...

You need camlgpc and camlpdf OPAM packages to build.

Thanks,

John

-- 
John Whitington
Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd
http://www.coherentpdf.com/

Re: [Caml-list] pycaml

[Nils Becker]

there is also this:

https://sites.google.com/a/furuse.info/jun/hacks/opycaml

which seems to be a reworked version of pycaml, last updated 01-2014.
i'm interested but have not used it.