Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Core Suite 109.08.00 released

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

Patdiff looks nice. Could you comment on its portability? I glanced at
the code and I spotted some possibly unixy things (eg. "/dev/null").
In which environments is it expected to work (possibly with degraded
options)?

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com> wrote:
> Another email to announce the 109.08.00 release of the Core
> suite. Amongst other things this new release includes the patdiff tool
> (which we used to distribute in the past); a diff-like program trying
> to improve the output.  You can see an example here:
>
>   http://janestreet.github.com/patdiff.html
>
> Files and documentation are available on our website and all packages
> are in opam:
>
>   https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/109.08.00/individual/
>   https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/109.08.00/doc/
>
> This release also fixes a few build issues with OSX.
>
> Full changelog since 109.07.00:
>
> - Async_extra:
>   - Added module `Async.Command`
>     This is `Core.Command` with additional async functions.  In particular
>     it contains a function `async_basic` that is exactly the same as
>     `Core.Command.basic`, except that the function it wraps returns
>     `unit Deferred.t`, instead of `unit`.  `async_basic` will also start the
>     async scheduler before the wrapped function is run, and will stop the
>     scheduler when the wrapped function returns.
> - Async_unix:
>   - Added module `Async.Process`
>     This is a new module for creating and dealing with child processes.
>   - For `Writer.save`, replaced the `temp_prefix` argument with `temp_file`.
>   - Added `Ivar.invariant` function.
>   - Added value `Scheduler.fold_fields`
>     This lets one fold over the fields in the scheduler, eliminates an
>     annoying place in catalog browser that reached into the internals of
>     async to compute the sizes of the scheduler fields
> - Core:
>   - Cleaned up and updated the `README`.
>   - Changed executables to enable backtraces if `OCAMLRUNPARAM` is not set.
>   - Changed `Command` so that executables show build info and version info
>     This happens when an executatble is called as:
>
>       foo.exe version
>
>     Before this change, rather than display build info, executables
>     would display the not-so-helpful:
>
>     (no option given - printing version)
>   - Added back `Float` rounding functions with a hardcoded direction.
>   - Exposed `with bin_io` and `with compare` for the =sexp_bool= type.
>   - Added value `Core.Never_returns.sexp_of_t`.
>   - Added values `Or_error.tag{,_arg}`
>     These are analogous to `Error` functions of the same name.
>   - Added functor `Sexpable.Of_sexpable`
>     This is for serializing values of one type as though it were some
>     other isomorphic type.
>   - Added module `Backtrace.Exn`
>     This exposes OCaml stdlib's `Printexc` functions for backtraces.
>   - Added module `Flags`
>     This implements Unix-style sets of flags that are represented as an
>     `int` with various bits set, one bit for each flag, e.g.,
>     `Linux_ext.Epoll.Flag`.
>   - Added module `Uuid`
>     This module implements universally unique identifiers based on version
>     3 of the UUID specification.  It used to be in `Core_extended=`
>   - Added module `Type_equal`, which defines the "equality" GADT.
> - Type_conv:
>   - Fixed type_conv to stop dropping parens in arguments such as:
>
>       type t = {
>         a : int with default(1), sexp_drop_if(fun x -> (x + 1) * 2 = 4)
>       } with sexp
>
> If you don't see the changes you submitted they are on their way for
> the next release.
>
> --
> Jeremie Dimino, for the Core team
>
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