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April Monthly Report

This post aims at summarizing the activities of OCamlPro for the past month. As usual, we worked in three main areas: the OCaml toolchain, development tools for OCaml and R&D projects. The toolchain Our multi-runtime implementation of OCaml had gained stability. Luca fixed a lot of low-level bugs in...

22 Apr 2013

OCamlPro

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wxOCaml, camlidl and Class Modules

Last week, I was bored doing some paperwork, so I decided to hack a little to relieve my mind... Looking for a GUI Framework for OCaml Beginners Some time ago, at OCamlPro, we had discussed the fact that OCaml was lacking more GUI frameworks. Lablgtk is powerful, but I don’t like it (and I expect ...

02 Apr 2013

OCamlPro

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An Indentation Engine for OCaml

Since our last activity report we have released the first stable versions of two projects: OPAM, an installation manager for OCaml source packages, and ocp-indent, an indentation tool. We have already described the basics of OPAM in two precedent blog posts, so today we will focus on the release of ...

18 Mar 2013

OCamlPro

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[ANN] Riakc 0.0.0

Note, since writing this post, Riakc 1.0.0 has already been released and merged into opam. It fixes the below issue of Links (there is a t...

17 Mar 2013

Orbitz

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[ANN] Protobuf 0.0.2

Protobuf is an Ocaml library for communicating with Google's protobuf format. It provides a method for writing parsers and builders. Ther...

17 Mar 2013

Orbitz

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OPAM 1.0.0 released

I am very happy to announce the first official release of OPAM! Many of you already know and use OPAM so I won't be long. Please read beta-release-of-opam for a longer description. 1.0.0 fixes many bugs and add few new features to the previously announced beta-release. The most visible new feature, ...

15 Mar 2013

OCamlPro

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An Overview of our Current Activities

From the early days of OCamlPro, people have been curious about our plans; they were asking how we worked at OCamlPro and what we were doing exactly. Now that we have started releasing projects more regularly, these questions come again. They are very reasonable questions, and have resolved to be mo...

18 Feb 2013

OCamlPro

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