announcement: Objective Caml 3.08.3

announcement: Objective Caml 3.08.3

[Damien Doligez]

Hello,

We have the pleasure of announcing the release of

              Objective Caml version 3.08.3

This is mostly a bug-fix release; see below for the list of
changes.  Upgrading is not urgent unless you have problems with
one of the bugs listed below.

Please note that we do not guarantee binary compatibility with
previous versions (including 3.08.2).

Only the source is available for the moment.  We will provide some
binaries in the near future.

It is available at http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html

-- Damien Doligez for the Caml Team


Objective Caml 3.08.3:
----------------------

New features:
- support for ocamlopt -pack under Mac OS X (PR#2634, PR#3320)
- ignore unknown warning options for forward and backward compatibility
- runtime: export caml_compare_unordered (PR#3479)
- camlp4: install argl.* files (PR#3439)
- ocamldoc: add -man-section option
- labltk: add the "solid" relief option (PR#3343)
- compiler: ocamlc -i now prints variance annotations

Bug fixes:
- typing: fix unsoundness in type declaration variance inference.
     Type parameters which are constrained must now have an explicit 
variant
     annotation, otherwise they are invariant. This is not backward
     compatible, so this might break code which either uses subtyping or
     uses the relaxed value restriction (i.e. was not typable before 
3.07)
- typing: erroneous partial match warning for polymorphic variants 
(PR#3424)
- runtime: handle the case of an empty command line (PR#3409, PR#3444)
- stdlib: make Sys.executable_name an absolute path in native code 
(PR#3303)
- runtime: fix memory leak in finalise.c
- runtime: auto-trigger compaction even if gc is called manually 
(PR#3392)
- stdlib: fix segfault in Obj.dup on zero-sized values (PR#3406)
- camlp4: correct parsing of the $ identifier (PR#3310, PR#3469)
- windows (MS tools): use link /lib instead of lib (PR#3333)
- windows (MS tools): change default install destination
- autoconf: better checking of SSE2 instructions (PR#3329, PR#3330)
- graphics: make close_graph close the X display as well as the window 
(PR#3312)
- num: fix big_int_of_string (empty string) (PR#3483)
- num: fix big bug on 64-bit architecture (PR#3299)
- str: better documentation of string_match and string_partial_match 
(PR#3395)
- unix: fix file descriptor leak in Unix.accept (PR#3423)
- unix: miscellaneous clean-ups
- unix: fix documentation of Unix.tm (PR#3341)
- graphics: fix problem when allocating lots of images under Windows 
(PR#3433)
- compiler: fix error message with -pack when .cmi is missing (PR#3028)
- cygwin: fix problem with compilation of camlheader (PR#3485)
- stdlib: Filename.basename doesn't return an empty string any more 
(PR#3451)
- stdlib: better documentation of Open_excl flag (PR#3450)
- ocamlcp: accept -thread option (PR#3511)
- ocamldep: handle spaces in file names (PR#3370)
- compiler: remove spurious warning in pattern-matching on variants 
(PR#3424)
- windows: better handling of InterpreterPath registry entry (PR#3334, 
PR#3432)

Re: [Caml-list] announcement: Objective Caml 3.08.3

[Eric Dahlman]

On Mar 17, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Damien Doligez wrote:

> New features:
> - support for ocamlopt -pack under Mac OS X (PR#2634, PR#3320)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Announcement: RPM packages of 3.08.3 for Fedora 1,2,3 RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 10.0

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 17.03.2005 05:38, Damien Doligez wrote:

> Only the source is available for the moment.  We will provide some
> binaries in the near future.

I have compiled RPM packages of OCaml 3.08.3 :
- Fedora Core, all releases (1, 2, and 3)
- Red Hat Linux 8.0
- Mandrake 10.0
- Source RPM

Download them from http://rpm.nogin.org/ocaml.html

-- 
Aleksey Nogin

Home Page: http://nogin.org/
E-Mail: nogin@cs.caltech.edu (office), aleksey@nogin.org (personal)
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Re: [Caml-list] Announcement: RPM packages of 3.08.3 for Fedora 1,2,3 RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 10.0

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:43:13AM -0800, Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> On 17.03.2005 05:38, Damien Doligez wrote:
> 
> >Only the source is available for the moment.  We will provide some
> >binaries in the near future.
> 
> I have compiled RPM packages of OCaml 3.08.3 :
> - Fedora Core, all releases (1, 2, and 3)
> - Red Hat Linux 8.0
> - Mandrake 10.0
> - Source RPM
> 
> Download them from http://rpm.nogin.org/ocaml.html

Well, Debian packages should be in experimental in a bit, pending a full
rebuild of the 50+ ocaml-related packages which should take us a couple of
weeks.

Friendly,

Sven Luther