The Caml Light bazaar

The Caml Light bazaar contains some useful and thoroughly tested software for Caml Light.

It is freely available at ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light/bazar-cl.

It offers the following libraries:

• grimage: a library to read and write images and to draw them in the Graphics window of the language. Handles 2 formats: PPM and BMP. Treats transparencies as an additional image type of the PPM format (an image that features transparent parts is given a companion bitmap image that defines the transparent areas of the main image).
• graphps: a library to write PostScript files using the Graphics library of Caml Light. Alternatively, you can consider this library as an easy way to print your drawings written by Caml programs that use the Graphics library. The library also generates so-called Encapsulated PostScript to incorporate your drawings into a TeX (or LaTeX) file output.
• ledit: a line editor that provides control commands similar to those of emacs or shells (bash, tcsh). A very useful program for interactive commands such as the Caml Light toplevel system. In addition, ledit provides a command history recording facility. Use ledit -x -h ~/.caml-history -c camllight to record your input into the file .caml-history while using Caml Light. You can also alias the command camllight to systematically use ledit, by adding to your .bashrc (or .cshrc or .tcshrc) the following line:

  alias camllight='ledit -x -h ~/.caml-history -c camllight'
  

  Ledit is written in Caml and uses the library unix.za.

See the INSTALL file to intall the entire bazaar. For more info about the libraries, read the corresponding documentation in the sub-directory doc of each library.

Enjoy the Caml Light bazaar!

Pierre Weis.