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[Caml-list] Announcement: ocamlnet 0.98
- Gerd Stolpmann
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Date: | 2004-09-08 (13:33) |
From: | Gerd Stolpmann <info@g...> |
Subject: | [Caml-list] Announcement: ocamlnet 0.98 |
Hello list, The OcamlNet project announces version 0.98 of this library collection. This version includes a lot of smaller updates (listed below), and one major API change that might break applications using OcamlNet. Remember there was a discussion on caml-list about a standard for object-based I/O. There was an agreement about the class type interface: http://ocaml-programming.de/rec/IO-Classes.html. This version of OcamlNet implements this convention, and unfortunately, the "input" method now raises End_of_file instead of returning 0 when the end is reached. Of course, programs relying on the value 0 no longer work. When programs stop with "Uncaught exception: End_of_file" this might be an indicator for this incompatibility. Sorry for the inconvenience, but standardization has its price. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is ocamlnet? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A collection of modules for the Objective Caml language which focus on application-level Internet protocols and conventions. The current distribution contains: - a mature implementation of the CGI protocol - an implementation of the JSERV protocol (AJP-1.2), can be used with mod_jserv (Apache JServ) and mod_jk (Jakarta connector) to connect application servers written in O'Caml with web servers - an implementation of the FastCGI protocol - an experimental POP3 client - a library of string processing functions related to Internet protocols (formerly known as "netstring" and distributed separately): MIME encoding/decoding, Date/time parsing, Character encoding conversion, HTML parsing and printing, URL parsing and printing, OO-representation of channels, and a lot more. Ocamlnet is developed as a SourceForge project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocamlnet Developers and code contributions are welcome. Ocamlnet is licensed under the zlib/libpng license. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of further changes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The legacy Cgi module is no longer built by default. One can still create it by -enable-compatcgi. Bugfixes in Netconversion's cursor implementation. It is now better specified, and the corner cases are handled in a better way. Bugfix in Mimestring.write_value: Folding of long encoded words is now correct. Bugfix in Netencoding.QuotedPrintable: Soft line breaks are added when lines would become too long otherwise. Uses CRLF as line separator in output now. Bugfix in Nethtml: In some rare cases, end tags were handled incorrectly. Addition: In Netchannels, there are now delegation classes. Useful if one wants only to redefine individual methods, and not whole classes. Addition: Netchannels.lift_in and lift_out is a simplified interface to lift a class from raw_in/out_channel to in/out_obj_channel. Improvement: Netmime.basic_mime_header avoids unnecessary modifications of the order of existing header fields. It is also faster. Additions: Mimestring.split_mime_type, split_uri. Netbuffer.add_char, insert_string, insert_sub_string, insert_char. Addition: Netulex is a support module for ulex Improvement: For bytecode, ocamlnet includes now "accelerators", i.e. C implementations of some time-intensive auxiliary functions. Currently, the character set conversions from ISO-8859-1 and from UTF-8 are accelerated. Enhanced Netsendmail module: It is now possible to create much more complicated mails, e.g. multipart/related mails. Improvements in Neturl: New function parse_url automatically selects the URL syntax. Support for a lot of new URL schemes. Enhanced URL syntax: Support for userparam, and the prevention of relative URLs. Added charset CP-1047 (= Latin1 as EBCDIC). Added ocamldoc to module interfaces, including a lot of tutorials. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners