[ocnae-help] ANNOUNCE: OCaml NAE release cf-0.7 and iom-0.2

[james w. <jh...@we...>]

everyone--

Today, the OCaml Network Application Environment (NAE) has released  
maintenance updates of two of its published libraries.  As its  
project page on SourceForge.Net says, OCaml NAE is "a collection of  
Objective Caml libraries to support the development of concurrent,  
single-threaded Internet application servers."

For downloads and more information, please see:

         <http://sf.net/projects/ocnae/>

The two libraries updated in this release are the Core Foundation  
(cf) and the Reactive I/O Monad (iom).  The cf library was formerly  
known as the Pagoda Core Foundation.  The complete CHANGES records  
for both libraries since their previous releases follows excerpts of  
the README files.

===== OCaml NAE Core Foundation (cf) library =====

This distribution is the Objective Caml Network Application  
Environment (NAE)
Core Foundation library, which is a collection of miscellaneous  
extensions to
the Objective Caml standard library.

Highlighted features include:

- Functional streams and stream processors (extended).
- Functional bootstrapped skew-binomial heap.
- Functional red-black binary tree (associative array).
- Functional sets based on red-black binary tree.
- Functional real-time catenable deque.
- Functional LL(x) parsing using state-exception monad.
- Functional lazy deterministic finite automaton (DFA).
- Functional lexical analyzer (using lazy DFA and monadic parser).
- Functional substring list manipulation (message buffer chains).
- Gregorian calendar date manipulation.
- Standard time manipulation.
- System time in Temps Atomique Internationale (TAI).
- Unicode transcoding.
- Extended socket interface (supports more options, and UDP w/ 
multicast).
- Universal resource identifier (URI) manipulation.
- I/O event multiplexing (with Unix.select).

Note: see the ISSUES file for a list of open problems in this release.

===== Required Components =====

This library requires the following external components:

- Objective Caml (v3.08.3 or newer)
- Findlib (tested with v1.0.4)

Principal development was on Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS X 10.4 w/ XCode  
2.1 using
GCC 4.0.  The final version of this library also compiled  
successfully and
passed all self-tests without warnings on Suse Linux 9.2 for x86-32.   
Other
platforms with POSIX-like environments should require only a minimal  
porting
effort.

One major open issue: the extended socket interface is broken under  
WIN32.
(The author invites help porting the library to other environments.)


===== OCaml NAE Reactive I/O Monad (iom) library =====

This distribution is the Objective Caml Network Application  
Environment (NAE)
Reactive I/O Monad library, which implements I/O monad functions  
designed to
facilitate writing of concurrent, reactive, single-threaded network  
application
services in a functional style.

Note: see the ISSUES file for a list of open problems in this release.

===== Required Components =====

This library requires the following external components:

- Objective Caml (v3.08.3 or newer)
- Findlib (v1.0.4)
- OCaml NAE Core Foundation (cf-0.7)

Principal development was on Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS X 10.4 w/ XCode  
2.1 using
GCC 4.0.  The final version of this library also compiled  
successfully and
passed all self-tests without warnings on Suse Linux 9.2 for x86-32.   
Other
platforms with POSIX-like environments should require only a minimal  
porting
effort.

===== CHANGES =====