---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These are release notes for ocamlnet-3.0. Major changes include: - Port to Win32 - The new Rpc_proxy layer - Netplex has been extended (Netplex_sharedvar etc.) - New implementation of the Shell library for starting subprocesses - Uniform debugging with Netlog.Debug - Exception printers (Netexn) - Coordination of signal handling in Netsys_signal - New foundation for Unixqueue via pollsets - Extended Unixqueue engines (e.g. Uq_io) - More system calls in netsys - Camlboxes as an efficient way of message passing between processes - The netcgi1 library has been dropped in favor of netcgi2 Also, there are lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Known Problems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are known problems in this preview release: - The port to Win32 is incomplete and still alpha quality - Sometimes, DNS errors are just reported by the exception Not_found - In netcgi2-plex, the "mount_dir" and "mount_at" options are not yet implemented. - In netclient, aggressive caching of HTTP connections is still buggy. Do not use this option (by default, it is not enabled). - The FTP client is still incomplete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Resources ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The current development version is available in Subversion: https://godirepo.camlcity.org/svn/lib-ocamlnet2 Note that the ocamlnet file tree in Sourceforge refers to ocamlnet-1 only. There is a mailing list for Ocamlnet development: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19774 In case of problems, you can also contact me directly: Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de>