I'm now setting up my Caml installations.
One thing that I've noticed is that often times when you
suddenly need a package ( say something to do computational geometry
), it becomes a pain to set it up.

So what I would like to do is install everything upfront, including
common libraries that I am likely to need sooner or later.
( Really esoteric libraries can be left off ).

So I looked through the VisualWorks 7 ( Smalltalk ) installation,
which generally comes with about 95% of the VW libraries out there 
( 95% of the noncommercial libraries of course ), looked through the
libraries and tried to come up with a similar list of Caml.

Below I present my half-finished list.
The format is:
Type of library
   Specific package1
   Specific package2
    ...
Type of library.

When I was unsure I put ???? or some comments.

What I am asking is: 
1) If I am missing a type of library please add it.
2) Where I am missing a package please add it.

If several packages are available, please list the "best"
one only, unless there is something which distinguishes
between the two.

Thanks.

  Regex
    PCRE ( built in?)
  GUI
    lablgtk
    More sophisticated graphics. Plotting, 3d drawing, etc.
Sophisticated widgets.
  Debugger/GUI interface for Debugger.
    Epiere--part of Chameleon
  Profiler/GUI interface for profiler.
    ????
  ProcessMonitor ( eg how much CPU time has been used, how mch memory,
etc. )
    ????
  FFI
    Built in.
    SWIG
  COM interface
    ????
  Build tools ( make etc ) especially tools commonly used in projects.
    Usual (automake autoconfig make ) and OCamlmake
  Code Analysis tools ( tags, crossreference, code quality testing
like lint, etc ).
    ????
  UnitTesting code (camlunit?)
    ????
  CaseTool 
    ???? 
  Corba interface
    CorbaIDL
  Advanced Math Tools
  Encryption(Blowfish,SSL,DES,MD5)
    Cryptokit.
    Cryptgps.
  Parsing Tools.
     Ocamllex Ocamlyacc.
     Anything using LL grammars.
     Packages that parse in a more "camlish" way.
  DB tools  ( esp Access,ODBC,Postgress and MySQL)
     OCamlODBC
     OCaml-MySQL
     Postgress
     bdb
     DBForge
  Internet Tools ( Sockets, SNMP, FTP, HTTP etc. )
     ????
  Advanced Internet Tools ( HTML Parsing, XML Parsing, Web
Applications, Basic Web Server, SOAP, etc.)
     ????
  
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