[Caml-list] [ANN] Barista: 2.0-alpha release

[Caml-list] [ANN] Barista: 2.0-alpha release

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Dear list,

This post announces the 2.0-alpha release of the Barista project, whose goal is to provide
a library for Java class file construction and a Java [dis]assembler, released under the LGPLv3.

Home page: http://barista.x9c.fr

Main changes since 1.4:
  - update for Objective Caml 3.12.1
  - update for Camomile 0.8.3
  - new build system (ocamlbuild-based)
  - reorganization of 'src' directory
  - support for Unicode in 'src/utf8' directory
  - major refactoring of code (with impact on API)
  - executable names changed to 'barista.byte' and 'barista.native'
  - peephole optimizations
  - optimization of stack frames
  - optimization of exception tables
  - optimization of 'transitive' jumps
  - new '-optimize' command-line switch to enable peephole/jump optimizations
  - support for 'invodynamic' (JSR 292)
  - preliminary support for type annotations (JSR 308)
  - preliminary support for Java modules (project Jigsaw / JSR 294)
  - support for 'package-info' and 'module-info' class files
  - support for Java serialization protocol (version 2 only)
  - new implementation for i/o operations
  - improved manual
  - Java API has been removed


Xavier Clerc