[Caml-list] [ANN] findlib-1.6.1

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Hi,

there is a new version of findlib for download. The main difference of
findlib-1.6.1 is that the style for specifying plugins changed. Now, use
something like

plugin(byte) = "archive.cma"
plugin(native) = "archive.cmxs"

(instead of archive(byte,plugin) and archive(native,plugin). This change
comes together with a dynamic loader: Fl_dynload. Just call it like

Fl_dynload [ "pkg1"; "pkg2" ]

to load these two packages together with any predecessors into the
running executable. (But see also the comments on the reference page:
http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/dl/findlib-1.6.1/doc/ref-html/lib/Fl_dynload.html)

Note that the old style is also understood, but users are strongly
encouraged to switch to the new style with the plugin variable. The
reason is that the old style is broken in one respect: if there is no
plugin definition at all, findlib would take the cmxa archive instead,
which can never work.

This feature was mainly contributed by François Bobot.

A few other changes:
 - new "ocamlfind lint" command for checking META files
   (also from François Bobot)
 - new %m format for "ocamlfind query" to get the location of
   the META file (me)
 - new: ocamlfind printconf metapath (me)
 - some fixes for Windows (MSYS_NT, spaces in paths) (Christophe
   Troestler)

The project page is still at
http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html

Gerd
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