This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20051202.

Changes since the last public release

• The MLton license is now BSD-style instead of the GPL.

• New platforms: X86/MinGW and HPPA/Linux.

• Improved and expanded documentation, based on the MLton wiki.

• Compiler.

• improved exception history.

• Command-line switches.

• Added: -as-opt, -mlb-path-map, -target-as-opt, -target-cc-opt.

• Removed: -native, -sequence-unit, -warn-match, -warn-unused.

• Language.

• FFI syntax changes and extensions.

• Added: _symbol.

• Changed: _export, _import.

• Removed: _ffi.

• ML Basis annotations.

• Added: allowFFI, nonexhaustiveExnMatch, nonexhaustiveMatch, redundantMatch, sequenceNonUnit.

• Deprecated: allowExport, allowImport, sequenceUnit, warnMatch.

• Libraries.

o Basis Library.

• Added: Int1, Word1.

o MLton structure.

• Added: Process.create, ProcEnv.setgroups, Rusage.measureGC, Socket.fdToSock, Socket.Ctl.getError.

• Changed: MLton.Platform.Arch.

o Other libraries.

• Added: ckit, ML-NLFFI library, SML/NJ library.

• Tools.

• Updates of mllex and mlyacc from SML/NJ.

• Added mlnlffigen.

• Profiling supports better inclusion/exclusion of code.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since Release20041109, see the changelog and Bugs20041109.

20051202 binary packages

• x86

• Cygwin 1.5.18-1

• FreeBSD 5.4

• Linux

• Debian sid

• Debian stable (Sarge)

• RedHat 7.1-9.3 FC1-FC4

• tgz for other distributions (glibc 2.3)

• MinGW

• NetBSD 2.0.2

• OpenBSD 3.7

• PowerPC

• Darwin 7.9.0 (Mac OS X)

• Sparc

• Solaris 8

20051202 source packages

• source tgz

• Debian dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz

• RedHat source rpm

Packages available at other sites

• Debian

• FreeBSD

• Fedora Core 4 5

• Ubuntu

Also see

• Bugs20051202

• MLton Guide (20051202). A snapshot of the MLton wiki at the time of release.