New subject: [polyml] Poly/ML 4.1.4 Release

30 Sep 2005


      I have built a new release for Poly/ML and installed it on the 
sourceforge site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/polyml .  There is a 
database for each of the i386, PPC and Sparc architectures and sources 
for the driver, compiler and Basis library.  As before, you need the 
driver plus the appropriate database.
This version has fixes for various bugs including the Linux segmentation 
fault which was fixed in the development sources.  It also turns off 
optimisation in the C compiler which seems to cause problems.  The main 
change, though, is that the Basis Library now conforms to Gansner and 
Reppy's book.  This contains a few changes which are incompatible with 
the old version, notably the use of array and vector slices.
Please try out this version and let me know if there are any significant 
problems.  If I don't hear anything in the next week or so I will update 
the web site to point to this as the current official release.  If I've 
failed to include a fix/suggestion you sent me I apologise.  I'll try 
and make sure these get into the CVS.
I have not built any packages at the moment.  If anyone has experience 
of building packages for particular operating systems and distributions 
it might be better if they could do it.  If you do and want to include 
it on the sourceforge site let me know.  Now that Poly/ML is licensed 
under LGPL it should be possible to include it in the operating system 
distributions.  I will make a Windows package and upload that shortly.
I know it's been a long time since the last Poly/ML distribution but I 
think on the whole it's better not to produce them unless there is a 
significant reason.
David.