2002.06.25.txt

Hello,

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, weeks 11 to 25 june, 2002. 

1) French interactive fiction, anyone ?
2) Ocaml tracing (with Camlp4)
3) Cameleon 0.4
4) DBForge 0.4

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1) French interactive fiction, anyone ?
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Berke Durak proposed:

Since it's now summer time, is anyone willing to write an interactive
fiction game (i.e. à la Zork or Adventure, although not necessarily in
that particular (fantasy) style) in French (and in Ocaml, of course) ?
The lack of IF games in french is frustrating. Plus, I guess it would
be really fun to write such a game in Ocaml, given that current IF
systems are half-baked, improvised languages.

In particular, natural language processing routines for french
(parsing/unparsing) would be needed.

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2) Ocaml tracing (with Camlp4)
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Basile Starynkevitch announced:

Dear All,

A big thanks to Alain Frisch, John Malecki, and Daniel de Rauglaudre  
for their help.

I finally managed to write a tracing preprocessor.

You can get it thru CVS, eg at

http://www2.poesia-filter.org:8000/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/PoesiaSoft/PoesiaMonIcap/pa_trace.ml

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3) Cameleon 0.4
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Maxence Guesdon announced:

I'm happy to announce the release of Cameleon 0.4, a bundle
of tools for the development of OCaml apllications.

It includes the following tools:
- dbforge 0.4,
- report 0.4,
- configwin 0.94,
- IoXML 0.6 (courtesy of Daniel de Rauglaudre),
- Okey 1.0,
- OCamlCVS 1.1++,
- Zoggy 0.91++
- a browser based on ocamldoc,

and additionnal configuration facilities.

http://www.maxence-g.net/Tools/cameleon/cameleon.html

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4) DBForge 0.4
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Maxence Guesdon announced:

I'm happy to announce the release of DBForge 0.4. This tool
lets you describe tables of a database and generates the code
to access these tables, now through 3 libraries :
- OCamlODBC,
- OCaml-MySQL,
- Postgres.  

More details at DBForge's page:
http://www.maxence-g.net/Tools/dbforge/dbforge.html

Enjoy !

Note: This new version is now included in Cameleon-bundle 0.4:
http://www.maxence-g.net/Tools/cameleon/cameleon.html

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