Blog of Sylvain Le Gall

Reading OCaml mailing list is really great source of good ideas.

I was thinking for some times to have a binding to DBUS in OCaml. This can give an easy access to HAL which is a good tool to detect most of the interesting hardware on a computer. I think this is a good way to write efficient script (as i am experimenting with Perl to detect my DVD writer). I think this deserve a debian package ;-)

While browsing for ocaml-dbus, i see that the upstream author also release a binding to inotify... This is also something i am interested in. I was thinking of building a inotify daemon to launch commands when files appear in a directory. Inotify can detect this kind of events.

And yesterday, while reading ocaml-beginners, someone talk about ocamlp3l. I have already seen this software, but at the time, i have no interest in it. But as of today, i think this can be a great way to unravel the power of a dual core computer! OCamlp3l helps people building parallel application. I also want to give this a try one day (when i will have finished to package everything).

For now, there is an RFS for ocamlp3l, but all these packages need to be authorized by upstream author.

My next package :

• ocaml-dbus
• ocaml-inotify
• ocamlp3l