Re: [Caml-list] [ANN[ Core Suite 113.24.00

[Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>]

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​We just released core, ppx_jane and ppx_bin_prot 113.24.01 to fix some
issues.

Changes:

- update corebuild to use ppx-jane instead of the old camlp4 extensions
- ​update META of ppx_jane and ppx_bin_prot so they can be used with
ocamlbuild or the toplevel

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>
wrote:

> I am pleased to announce the 113.24.00 release of the Core suite.
>
> It has been 4 month and a half since the last release, so there are
> lots of new things in this release. Thankfully we now have a better
> release system and can go back to more frequent releases.
>
> All packages are now in opam and the API documentation is here:
>
>   https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/113.24/doc/
>
> [Note: if you run into trouble while running "opam upgrade", try "opam
> upgrade core" instead. A PR has been submitted to fix this]
>
> Notable changes:
>
> * This is the first release completely camlp4 free!
>
>   Especially some problems with the initial release of our ppx
>   rewriters have been fixed which make them more usable.
>
>   As a side effect of moving from camlp4 to ppx_driver, compilation
>   times have improved. From a fresh `opam init` in both case:
>
>       $ time opam install -y core.113.00.00
>       [...]
>       real 6m17.875s
>       user 5m26.374s
>       sys  1m10.039s
>
>       $ time opam install -y core.113.24.00
>       [...]
>       real 3m16.900s
>       user 3m9.860s
>       sys  0m53.335s
>
> * We started to handle API upgrades in a more disciplined way by using
>   `[@deprecated]` attributes. This should help with incompatible
>   changes in our libraries
>
> * Addition of a few ppx rewriters:
>
>   - ppx_expect, a Cram like framework for OCaml
>   - ppx_let, for monadic/applicative let bindings
>   - ppx_sexp_message, similar to ppx_sexp_value, but more "message"
> oriented
>
>   We are still making adjustments in ppx_let and ppx_expect so their
>   usage might slightly change in the next release.
>
>   More information can be found on the github project pages:
>
>   - https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_expect
>   - https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_let
>   - https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_sexp_message
>
>
> The full changelog for this release can be found here:
>
>   https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/113.24/CHANGES.html
>
> This is the full list of packages added/modified:
>
> - async
> - async_extended
> - async_extra
> - async_find
> - async_inotify
> - async_kernel
> - async_parallel
> - async_rpc_kernel
> - async_shell
> - async_smtp
> - async_ssl
> - async_unix
> - bignum
> - bin_prot
> - core
> - core_bench
> - core_extended
> - core_kernel
> - core_profiler
> - email_message
> - fieldslib
> - incremental
> - jenga
> - ocaml_plugin
> - patdiff
> - patience_diff
> - ppx_assert
> - ppx_bench
> - ppx_bin_prot
> - ppx_compare
> - ppx_conv_func
> - ppx_core
> - ppx_csv_conv
> - ppx_custom_printf
> - ppx_driver
> - ppx_enumerate
> - ppx_expect
> - ppx_fail
> - ppx_fields_conv
> - ppx_here
> - ppx_inline_test
> - ppx_jane
> - ppx_let
> - ppx_optcomp
> - ppx_pipebang
> - ppx_sexp_conv
> - ppx_sexp_message
> - ppx_sexp_value
> - ppx_type_conv
> - ppx_typerep_conv
> - ppx_variants_conv
> - ppx_xml_conv
> - re2
> - rpc_parallel
> - sexplib
> - textutils
> - typerep
> - typerep_extended
> - variantslib
>
> --
> Jeremie Dimino, for the Core team
>
>


-- 
Jeremie

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