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  26 <h1>Release20130715</h1>
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  29 <div id="preamble">
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  31 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20130715.</p></div>
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  34 <div class="sect1">
  35 <h2 id="_changes_since_the_last_public_release">Changes since the last public release</h2>
  36 <div class="sectionbody">
  37 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  38 <li>
  39 <p>
  40 Compiler.
  41 </p>
  42 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  43 <li>
  44 <p>
  45 Cosmetic improvements to type-error messages.
  46 </p>
  47 </li>
  48 <li>
  49 <p>
  50 Removed features:
  51 </p>
  52 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  53 <li>
  54 <p>
  55 Bytecode codegen: The bytecode codegen had not seen significant use and it was not well understood by any of the active developers.
  56 </p>
  57 </li>
  58 <li>
  59 <p>
  60 Support for <span class="monospaced">.cm</span> files as input: The <a href="MLBasis">ML Basis system</a> provides much better infrastructure for "programming in the very large" than the (very) limited support for CM.  The <span class="monospaced">cm2mlb</span> tool (available in the source distribution) can be used to convert CM projects to MLB projects, preserving the CM scoping of module identifiers.
  61 </p>
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  63 </ul></div>
  64 </li>
  65 <li>
  66 <p>
  67 Bug fixes: see <a href="https://raw.github.com/MLton/mlton/on-20130715-release/doc/changelog"><span class="monospaced">changelog</span></a>
  68 </p>
  69 </li>
  70 </ul></div>
  71 </li>
  72 <li>
  73 <p>
  74 Runtime.
  75 </p>
  76 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  77 <li>
  78 <p>
  79 Bug fixes: see <a href="https://raw.github.com/MLton/mlton/on-20130715-release/doc/changelog"><span class="monospaced">changelog</span></a>
  80 </p>
  81 </li>
  82 </ul></div>
  83 </li>
  84 <li>
  85 <p>
  86 Language.
  87 </p>
  88 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  89 <li>
  90 <p>
  91 Interpret <span class="monospaced">(*#line line:col "file" *)</span> directives as relative file names.
  92 </p>
  93 </li>
  94 <li>
  95 <p>
  96 <a href="MLBasisAnnotations">ML Basis annotations</a>.
  97 </p>
  98 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  99 <li>
 100 <p>
 101 Added: <span class="monospaced">resolveScope</span>
 102 </p>
 103 </li>
 104 </ul></div>
 105 </li>
 106 </ul></div>
 107 </li>
 108 <li>
 109 <p>
 110 Libraries.
 111 </p>
 112 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 113 <li>
 114 <p>
 115 <a href="BasisLibrary">Basis Library</a>.
 116 </p>
 117 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 118 <li>
 119 <p>
 120 Improved performance of <span class="monospaced">String.concatWith</span>.
 121 </p>
 122 </li>
 123 <li>
 124 <p>
 125 Use bit operations for <span class="monospaced">REAL.class</span> and other low-level operations.
 126 </p>
 127 </li>
 128 <li>
 129 <p>
 130 Support additional variables with <span class="monospaced">Posix.ProcEnv.sysconf</span>.
 131 </p>
 132 </li>
 133 <li>
 134 <p>
 135 Bug fixes: see <a href="https://raw.github.com/MLton/mlton/on-20130715-release/doc/changelog"><span class="monospaced">changelog</span></a>
 136 </p>
 137 </li>
 138 </ul></div>
 139 </li>
 140 <li>
 141 <p>
 142 <a href="MLtonStructure">MLton structure</a>.
 143 </p>
 144 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 145 <li>
 146 <p>
 147 Removed: <span class="monospaced">MLton.Socket</span>
 148 </p>
 149 </li>
 150 </ul></div>
 151 </li>
 152 <li>
 153 <p>
 154 Other libraries.
 155 </p>
 156 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 157 <li>
 158 <p>
 159 Updated: <a href="CKitLibrary">ckit library</a>, <a href="MLRISCLibrary">MLRISC library</a>, <a href="SMLNJLibrary">SML/NJ library</a>
 160 </p>
 161 </li>
 162 <li>
 163 <p>
 164 Added: <a href="MLLPTLibrary">MLLPT library</a>
 165 </p>
 166 </li>
 167 </ul></div>
 168 </li>
 169 </ul></div>
 170 </li>
 171 <li>
 172 <p>
 173 Tools.
 174 </p>
 175 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 176 <li>
 177 <p>
 178 <span class="monospaced">mllex</span>
 179 </p>
 180 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 181 <li>
 182 <p>
 183 Generate <span class="monospaced">(*#line line:col "file.lex" *)</span> directives with simple (relative) file names, rather than absolute paths.
 184 </p>
 185 </li>
 186 </ul></div>
 187 </li>
 188 <li>
 189 <p>
 190 <span class="monospaced">mlyacc</span>
 191 </p>
 192 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 193 <li>
 194 <p>
 195 Generate <span class="monospaced">(*#line line:col "file.grm" *)</span> directives with simple (relative) file names, rather than absolute paths.
 196 </p>
 197 </li>
 198 <li>
 199 <p>
 200 Fixed bug in comment-handling in lexer.
 201 </p>
 202 </li>
 203 </ul></div>
 204 </li>
 205 </ul></div>
 206 </li>
 207 </ul></div>
 208 <div class="paragraph"><p>For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since
 209 <a href="Release20100608">Release20100608</a>, see the
 210 <a href="https://raw.github.com/MLton/mlton/on-20130715-release/doc/changelog"><span class="monospaced">changelog</span></a> and
 211 <a href="Bugs20100608">Bugs20100608</a>.</p></div>
 212 </div>
 213 </div>
 214 <div class="sect1">
 215 <h2 id="_20130715_binary_packages">20130715 binary packages</h2>
 216 <div class="sectionbody">
 217 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 218 <li>
 219 <p>
 220 AMD64 (aka "x86-64" or "x64")
 221 </p>
 222 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 223 <li>
 224 <p>
 225 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-macports.tgz">Darwin (.tgz)</a> 11.4 (Mac OS X Lion), dynamically linked against <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a> in <span class="monospaced">/opt/local/lib</span> (suitable for <a href="http://macports.org">MacPorts</a> install of <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a>)
 226 </p>
 227 </li>
 228 <li>
 229 <p>
 230 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-static.tgz">Darwin (.tgz)</a> 11.4 (Mac OS X Lion), statically linked against <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a> (but requires <a href="GnuMP">GnuMP</a> for generated executables)
 231 </p>
 232 </li>
 233 <li>
 234 <p>
 235 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-linux.tgz">Linux</a>, glibc 2.15
 236
 237 </p>
 238 </li>
 239 </ul></div>
 240 </li>
 241 <li>
 242 <p>
 243 X86
 244 </p>
 245 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 246 <li>
 247 <p>
 248 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.x86-linux.tgz">Linux</a>, glibc 2.15
 249
 250 </p>
 251 </li>
 252 </ul></div>
 253 </li>
 254 </ul></div>
 255 </div>
 256 </div>
 257 <div class="sect1">
 258 <h2 id="_20130715_source_packages">20130715 source packages</h2>
 259 <div class="sectionbody">
 260 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 261 <li>
 262 <p>
 263 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715.src.tgz">mlton-20130715.src.tgz</a>
 264 </p>
 265 </li>
 266 </ul></div>
 267 </div>
 268 </div>
 269 <div class="sect1">
 270 <h2 id="_downstream_packages">Downstream packages</h2>
 271 <div class="sectionbody">
 272 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 273 <li>
 274 <p>
 275 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mlton&amp;searchon=names&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all">Debian</a>
 276 </p>
 277 </li>
 278 <li>
 279 <p>
 280 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mlton&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
 281 </p>
 282 </li>
 283 <li>
 284 <p>
 285 <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mlton">Fedora</a>
 286 </p>
 287 </li>
 288 <li>
 289 <p>
 290 <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&amp;section=all&amp;arch=any&amp;searchon=names&amp;keywords=mlton">Ubuntu</a>
 291 </p>
 292 </li>
 293 </ul></div>
 294 </div>
 295 </div>
 296 <div class="sect1">
 297 <h2 id="_also_see">Also see</h2>
 298 <div class="sectionbody">
 299 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 300 <li>
 301 <p>
 302 <a href="Bugs20130715">Bugs20130715</a>
 303 </p>
 304 </li>
 305 <li>
 306 <p>
 307 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/guide/20130715/">MLton Guide (20130715)</a>.
 308 </p>
 309 <div class="paragraph"><p>A snapshot of the MLton website at the time of release.</p></div>
 310 </li>
 311 </ul></div>
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