Excerpts from andrej.bauer's message of Mon Mar 03 22:59:39 +0100 2008:
> >> open Ocamlbuild_plugin;;
> >>
> >> dispatch begin function
> >>    | After_rules ->
> >>        flag ["ocaml"; "doc"] "-keep-code"
> >> end
> 
> This gives me an error.

Yes, in fact it's:

 flag ["ocaml"; "doc"] (A"-keep-code")

> > You can also be less global by adding a new tag "keep_code":
> 
> In my case I am happy to be "global". I ended up with:
> 
> open Ocamlbuild_plugin ;;
> 
> dispatch begin function
>   | After_options ->
>       Options.ocamldoc :=
>         S[
>           A"ocamldoc";
>           A"-keep-code";
>           A"-colorize-code"
>         ]
>   | _ -> ()
> end
> 
> This feels "too global" though.
> 
> Maybe I should explain the background. I am composing a library of small
> examples from programming language theory. A typical example consists of
> about 300 lines of code (including ocamllex and ocamlyacc). I want it to be:
> 
> (1) as easy to compile as possible: I decided to use ocamlbuild but I
> also provide a Makefile which runs ocamlbuild and a README.txt
> explaining how to compile. The only drawback is that this requires a
> fairly new version of ocaml.
> 
> (2) I want to publish the code on the web in browsable format. I think I
> will do it two ways: as generated by ocamldoc (which is why I wanted
> "-keep-code"). and as raw code converted to HTML with caml2html (because
> ocamldoc doesn't do .mly and .mll).
> 
> Since I am already talking about ocamlbuild, I should point out that I
> used it for teaching last semester. The main challenge was coping with
> Windows environment which cannot handle symbolic links. (And we used
> OcaIDE, too. The "development environment" kind of worked, and was much
> much less hassle than xemacs+make).

Yes windows support needs more care. Glad to hear that you've make it worked.

Best regards,

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai