From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4669FBC63 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:27:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from maury.inria.fr (maury.inria.fr [192.93.2.7]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBC8QJ6g012254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:27:54 +0100 Received: from blizzard.cs.caltech.edu (blizzard.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.44.2]) by maury.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBC58RQl010442 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:08:28 +0100 Received: from localhost (flood.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.44.31]) by blizzard.cs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488161BC435 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:08:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from blizzard.cs.caltech.edu ([131.215.44.2]) by localhost (flood.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.44.31]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24468-08 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:08:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] (cpe-75-82-166-60.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.166.60]) by blizzard.cs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012C11BC431 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:08:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <457E3948.5030107@metaprl.org> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:08:24 -0800 From: Aleksey Nogin Reply-To: omake@metaprl.org, Caml List Organization: MetaPRL/Mojave Research Group User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Caml List Subject: Announcing OMake 0.9.8 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 457E67AB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Miltered: at maury with ID 457E394B.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 ocaml:01 foo:01 baz:01 foo:01 baz:01 dependencies:01 ocaml:01 cygwin:01 osh:01 syntax:01 makefiles:01 bugfixes:01 ad-hoc:01 ocamldep:01 We are proud to announce the latest release of the OMake Build System - OMake version 0.9.8. OMake is a build system designed for scalability and portability. It uses a syntax similar to make utilities you may have used, but it features many additional enhancements, including the following. - Support for projects spanning several directories or directory hierarchies. - Fast, reliable, automated, scriptable dependency analysis using MD5 digests, with full support for incremental builds. - Fully scriptable, includes a library that providing support for standard tasks in C, C++, OCaml, and LaTeX projects, or a mixture thereof. Often, a configuration file is as simple as a single line .DEFAULT: $(OCamlProgram prog, foo bar baz) which states that the program "prog" is built from the files foo.ml, bar.ml, and baz.ml. This one line will also invoke the default standard library scripts for discovering implicit dependencies in OCaml files. - Full native support for rules that build several files at once. - Portability: omake provides a uniform interface on Linux/Unix (including 64-bit architectures), Win32, Cygwin, Mac OS X, and other platforms that are supported by OCaml. - Built-in functions that provide the most common features of programs like grep, sed, find, and awk. These are especially useful on Win32. - Active filesystem monitoring, where the build automatically restarts whenever you modify a source file. This can be very useful during the edit/compile cycle. - A built-in command-interpreter osh that can be used interactively. OMake preserves the style of syntax and rule definitions used in Makefiles, making it easy to port your project to OMake. There is no need to code in Perl (cons), or Python (scons). However, there are a few things to keep in mind: 1. Indentation is significant, but tabs are not required. 2. The OMake language is functional: functions are first-class and there are no side-effects apart from I/O. 3. Scoping is dynamic. OMake is licensed under a mixture of the GNU GPL license (OMake engine itself) and the MIT-like license (default configuration files). OMake version 0.9.8 in major feature enhancements and bugfixes release. The changes in this version include: - The conversion from OMake expressions to shell command lines went through a major redesign to make it more consistent and less ad-hoc. - OMake documentation was significantly reorganized. - OCaml build rules: Added experimental improved dependency scanner using the upcoming "ocamldep -modules" feature; added support for the Menhir parser-generator. - Added a number of new options to control OMake's output and verbosity; OMake is now more silent by default. - Many more improvements and bug fixes. For a more verbose change log, please visit http://omake.metaprl.org/changelog.html#0.9.8 . Source and binary packages of OMake 0.9.8 may be downloaded from http://omake.metaprl.org/download.html . In addition, OMake may be obtained via the GODI packaging system. To try it out, run the command "omake --install" in a project directory, and modify the generated OMakefile. OMake 0.9.8 is still an alpha release. While we have made an effort to ensure that it is bug-free, it is possible some functions may not behave as you would expect. Please report any comments and/or bugs to the mailing list omake@metaprl.org and/or at http://bugzilla.metaprl.org/