Re: lwt-json-logger and crunch releases

[Jon Ludlam <jjl25@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI I'm getting another failure to install 'crunch' into /usr/local/bin/ - you 
pesky mac users keep breaking my opam!

I'm frustrated because I _love_ the idea of lwt-json-logger and want to use it 
immediately!

Jon


On 21 Sep 2012, at 22:00, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> I've released another two packages into OPAM today:
> 
> ocaml-crunch: http://github.com/mirage/ocaml-crunch
> ------------
> 
> $ opam update
> $ opam install crunch
> $ man ocaml-crunch
> $ ocaml-crunch --help
> 
> This is a tidied up version of the mirage-fs `mir-crunch` utility, which 
> converts a directory into a static OCaml module that has no dependency on
> that filesystem.
> 
> It uses cmdliner to generate man pages and nice help, so I separated it
> from the mirage-fs repository (which is where all the Block and Fat32
> libs go, and this is useful independently. 
> 
> Secondly:
> 
> ocaml-lwt-json-logger: http://github.com/avsm/ocaml-lwt-json-logger
> ---------------------
> 
> $ opam install lwt-json-logger
> 
> This uses crunch to embed a debug web server within any Lwt/Mirage
> binary, and serves up the log messages using fancy AJAX.  To try it
> out, opam install the library (so you have all the dependencies) and
> then clone the repo and run ./_build/lib_test/lwt_json_logger_test.native
> 
> It will start a webserver on localhost:8080, which you can connect to
> with a web browser to see the debug messages.
> 
> The interface is still pretty beta, but I'm going to start using it
> in the Signpost code and see how useful it is.  I hope to add more
> live progress bars using js_of_ocaml soon!
> 
> -anil
>