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Here is a short report on some of our public activities in May and June 2014. Towards OPAM 1.2 After a lot of discussions and work on OPAM itself, we are now getting to a clear workflow for OCaml developpers and packagers: the preliminary document for OPAM 1.2 is available here. The idea is that you...
Recently, we worked on an online Javascript-based serverless version of the Alt-Ergo SMT solver. In what follows, we will explain the principle of this version of Alt-Ergo, show how it can be used on a realistic example and compare its performances with bytecode and native binaries of Alt-Ergo. Comp...
Here is a short report on some of our activities in April 2014, and a short analysis of OCaml evolution since its first release. OPAM Improvements We're still working on release 1.2. It was decided to include quite a few new features in this release, which delayed it a little bit since we want to be...
OCaml 4.01 with its new feature to disambiguate constructors allows to do a nice trick: a simple and generic syntax extension that allows to define your own syntax without having to write complicated parsetree transformers. We propose an implementation in the form of a ppx rewriter. it does only a s...
Here is a short report of some of our activities in February 2014 ! Displaying what OPAM is doing After releasing version 1.1.1, we have been very busy preparing the next big things for OPAM. We have also steadily been improving stability and usability, with a focus on friendly messages: for example...
Here is a short report of some of our activities in last December and January ! A New Intel Backend for ocamlopt With the support of LexiFi, we started working on a new Intel backend for the ocamlopt native code compiler. Currently, there are four Intel backends in ocamlopt: amd64/emit.mlp, amd64/em...
We are proud to announce that OPAM 1.1.1 has just been released. This minor release features mostly stability and UI/doc improvements over OPAM 1.1.0, but also focuses on improving the API and tools to be a better base for the platform (functions for opam-doc, interface with tools like opamfu and op...
New Team Members We are pleased to welcome three new members in our OCamlPro team since the beginning of November: Benjamin Canou started working at OCamlPro on the Richelieu project, an effort to bring better safety and performance to the Scilab language. He is in charge of a type inference algorit...
After a while staged as RC, we are proud to announce the final release of OPAM 1.1.0! Thanks again to those who have helped testing and fixing the last few issues. Important note The repository format has been improved with incompatible new features; to account for this, the new repository is now ho...
Here is a short report of our activities in September-October 2013. OCamlPro at OCaml’2013 in Boston We were very happy to participate to OCaml’2013, in Boston. The event was a great success, with a lot of interesting talks and many participants. It was a nice opportunity for us to present some ...