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
>
>