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From: Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
To: Jun Furuse <jun.furuse@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OCamlOScope: a new OCaml API search
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:51:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMu2m2Ku4N6jZwwn3y1H0SWtZANYw-qbrCPgyC_=o0i5SxJskg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAoLEWs9q6TSgeSm8qyp9Wa0tKVXDvwg0Ke3mp5kyDtaMcLUZg@mail.gmail.com>

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Does this supersede search.ocaml.jp? Shall we change the "OCaml API Search"
link on the front page of ocaml.org?

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Jun Furuse <jun.furuse@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I have launched a new OCaml API search, OCaml◎Scope at
> http://ocamloscope.herokuapp.com .
>
> OCaml◎Scope is a type directed library search, derived work from OCaml API
> Search by Mizuno and its ancestor OCamlBrowser by Garrigue. It is also
> inspired from Hoogle, the same API search engine for Haskell by MItchell,
> which I regularly use in my Haskell :-) job.
>
> * Fast and Portable. It loads everything in memory, unlike OCaml API
> Search and OCamlBrowser which load compiled interface files (*.cmi)
> dynamically. The data file is extracted from compiled files but
> self-contained, so the search engine does not require to compile the
> libraries locally.
> * No use of unification but edit distance of types like Hoogle.
> Unification does not provide good results in type directed search, and is
> costy.
> * OCamlFind and OPAM friendly. OCaml◎Scope knows which items are from
> which OCamlFind and OPAM packages.
> * OCamlDoc: it also extracts OCamlDoc comments, if possible.
> * Small: it can even run as a heroku app. Currently it carries 245k
> entries from 76 OCamlFind packages including Core and Batteries, but the
> data file (as a marshalled OCaml value) is still 20Mb.
>
> There are lots of todos but I think the search results look well sane so
> far. If you find something strange please drop by
> https://bitbucket.org/camlspotter/ocamloscope-server/issues?status=new&status=open and
> leave some comments. Thanks!
>
> Jun Furuse
>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-05 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-05  2:11 Jun Furuse
2013-07-05  3:25 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-07-08 15:42   ` Jun Furuse
2013-07-05 14:51 ` Ashish Agarwal [this message]
2013-07-08 15:47   ` Jun Furuse
2013-07-08  0:51 ` Francois Berenger
2013-07-08 16:06   ` Jun Furuse
2013-07-08 18:58     ` Gerd Stolpmann

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