Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OASIS 0.4.2

[Jacques-Pascal Deplaix <jp.deplaix@gmail.com>]

Now available in opam.

On 02/23/2014 02:19 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just released OASIS v0.4.2.
>
>   * Major changes:
>
>     * Change BSD3 and BSD4 to BSD-3-clause and BSD-4-clause to comply with
>       DEP5, add BSD-2-clause. BSD3 and BSD4 are still valid but marked as
>       deprecated.
>       More information:
>       http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#license-specification
>
>     * Enhance .cmxs supports through the generation of .mldylib files.
>       When one of the modules of a library has the name of the library,
>       ocamlbuild tends to just transform this module into a .cmxs. Now, the use
>       of a .mldylib fix that problem and the .cmxs really contains all modules
>       of the library.
>
>     * Refactor oasis.cli to be able to create subcommand plugins.
>       * Exported modules starts now with CLI.
>       * Display plugins in the manual.
>       * Design so that it is possible to be thread-safe.
>       * Try to minimize the number of functions.
>       * Make better choice of name and API.
>       * A subcommand plugin 'dist' to create tarball is in preparation, as a
>         separate project.
>
>     * Remove plugin-list subcommand, this command was limited and probably not
>       used. A better alternative will appear in next version.
>
>     * Sub-command setup-dev is now hidden and will soon be removed.
>
>   * Minor changes:
>
>     * Refactor ocamlbuild build plugin to have some features in doc plugin.
>       XOCamlbuilExtraArgs and XOCamlbuildPluginTags are now available for
>       Document. The flag '-use-ocamlfind' is set for doc and build plugin.
>
>     * Reorganize the test/data directory, each toplevel test has now its
>       dedicated subdirectory in test/data.
>
>     * Start to work on better support of syntax extension:
>       * Remove archive(syntax,{byte,native}) from the META, this was causing
>         an issue when trying to compile.
>       * Add an example that creates a syntax extension.
>       * Add support for auto-guessing syntax_camlp4o when one of the syntax
>         extension shipped with camlp4 is in a build depends.
>
>     * Allow to include $(X) in CCOpt/CClib.
>       This patch helps to enable variable susbtitution for flags. This allow to
>       write a PostConfCommand script to insert this data in setup.data and have
>       them back when running OCamlbuild.
>
>     * Raise error when "true" or "false" are not spelled correctly.
>
>     * Fix some warnings about "Field X is set but matcing plugin Z is not enabled."
>
> Full blog post here:
> http://le-gall.net/sylvain+violaine/blog/index.php?post/2014/02/18/Release-OASIS-0.4.3
> (version in the URL is wrong, sorry about that)
>
> Cheers,
> Sylvain Le Gall