Re: lwt-json-logger and crunch releases

[Jon Ludlam <jjl25@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hurrah! Success!

The logger is installed and running - very nice indeed. I'm sure I'll be able 
to use this in a number of places.

Jon

On 21 Sep 2012, at 23:30, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> You're like a human Jenkins!  The OPAM file for the dev repo wasn't synched 
> with
> the release repo.  I just did that, and it should install into the right 
> prefix
> now...
> 
> Btw, I'm going with the convention of just calling the dev repo packages 
> (which 
> have git:// URLs and are refreshed on every opam update) as 1.0.0, and the 
> main
> opam-repository with tarballs will have lower release versions (0.9.2 for 
> cohttp
> at present).
> 
> This means we don't have to keep updating the dev package on every release, as
> OPAM sometimes gets unhappy and full of Not_founds when a package directory
> disappears...
> 
> -anil
> 
> On 21 Sep 2012, at 18:19, Jon Ludlam <jjl25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm. The good news is that crunch 1.0.1 installs flawlessly! The bad news is 
>> - well, let's just say I now anxiously await cohttp.1.0.1…
>> 
>> Logfile attached!
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>> <log>
>> 
>> 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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