Re: lwt-json-logger and crunch releases

[Jon Ludlam <jjl25@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 21 Sep 2012, at 22:34, Jon Ludlam wrote:

> 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
>> 
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