[Caml-list] Attn: Development Editor, Latest OCaml Weekly News

Alan Schmitt
2021-12-21T09:12:12Z

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Hello

Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of December 14 to 21,
2021.

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Are you teaching using the Learn-OCaml platform?
A SOCKS implementation for OCaml
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Are you teaching using the Learn-OCaml platform?
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Archive:
<https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2021-12/msg00007.html>

Erik Martin-Dorel announced
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The OCaml Software Foundation is developing the teaching platform
Learn-OCaml that provides auto-graded exercises for OCaml, and was
initially authored by OCamlPro for the OCaml MOOC:
<https://ocaml-sf.org/learn-ocaml/>

The platform is free software and easy to deploy; this is great, but
as a result we keep learning of users/deployments that we had no idea
of. We would be interested in having a better view of our
user-base. If you use Learn-OCaml as a teacher, could you answer this
email (To: e.mdorel@gmail.com) and let us know?

Ideally we would like to know:

• Where are you using Learn-OCaml? → in which university (in a
specific course?), or in which company, online community or … ?
• How many students/learners use your deployment in a year?

Also FYI:

• For an example of Learn-OCaml instance, see
<https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/interesting-ocaml-exercises-from-francois-pottier-available-online/7050>
• Last October we had a 0.13.0 release, full of new features:
<https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-release-of-ocaml-sf-learn-ocaml-0-13-0/8577>
• For any question related to Learn-OCaml, feel free to create a
discussion topic on <https://discuss.ocaml.org/> , category
Community, tag /learn-ocaml/.
• And if need be, opening an issue in
<https://github.com/ocaml-sf/learn-ocaml/issues> if of course warmly
welcome as well.

A SOCKS implementation for OCaml
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Archive:
<https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/a-socks-implementation-for-ocaml/9041/1>

Renato Alencar announced
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I have been working on a SOCKS implementation for OCaml and specially
for MirageOS. It's not really complete or stable yet (not even
published), it only has a couple of proof of concepts on the examples
directory and it doesn't integrate with the well known libraries of
the ecosystem.

I would like to ask for feedback, and some thoughts about how could we
have that in Conduit and Cohttp for example, so It'd be just plugged
in into those libraries without having to directly depending on it. I
plan to implement that for those libraries and have it submitted
upstream, but not without some clear thoughts about how to make a
clear interface for that.

Besides being sloppy, I have a few issues described on GitHub, and it
should be addressed on the next few days. Anyone is welcome to discuss
those issues as some of them are still foggy for me, and having some
other views on that would be great.

<https://github.com/renatoalencar/ocaml-socks-client>

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