[cwn] Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of August 01 to 08,  
2006.

1) ocaml support in autotools
2) efficient sparse matrix implementation anyone?

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1) ocaml support in autotools
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/ 
402103036959acf3/2aea3412312d2c58#2aea3412312d2c58>
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** Guillaume Rousse asked, spawning a huge thread you may read at the  
archive link:

I'd like to have ocaml support in autotools (autoconf + automake), to
avoid heavy code duplication between several projects (at least
ocmalimages and activedvi).

Autoconf support is quite simple to do, and even already done (I easily
found  reference to
<http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ftp/ocaml/misc/configure.in>. But  
instead of
loosely distributing those macros in a custom package, as currently done
in Debian, I'd like to submit them directly to autoconf maintainers
(with some modification, and with author's agreement of course). They
are OK for this, provided there is some prior consensus in ocaml
community first, to avoid continual macro change request of course.

Automake support is more complex, but apparently someone already tried
it, as discussed at
<http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2003/12/ 
c9bf9f5d4423a9259f12ccc805fe4c1>
<http://sourceware.org/ml/automake/2003-12/msg00153.html>
I'd be interested in current status of this effort before further
investigation.

Comments ?

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2) efficient sparse matrix implementation anyone?
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/ 
f2d25d14bba464ef/58b4786ecd3592ab#58b4786ecd3592ab>
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** Continuing an old thread, Daniel Andor said:

I've used LACAML with band-diagonal sparse matrices, and it worked  
very nicely.
There's also CamlFloat:
   <http://math.ucsb.edu/~lyons/camlFloat/>
although I have never used it. Looks enticing...

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