From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A500BCAB for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:08:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j4QC82IM008135 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:08:02 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13310 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:08:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j4QC81Fj009906 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:08:02 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DbHDV-0004fu-00; Thu, 26 May 2005 13:12:01 +0100 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:12:01 +0100 To: Alex Baretta Cc: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] BCP relating to -pack? Message-ID: <20050526121201.GA16312@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <42959F7A.7020908@barettadeit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42959F7A.7020908@barettadeit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4295BC22.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4295BC21.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 -pack:01 pxp:01 pxp:01 -pack:01 notepad:01 ...:98 cma:01 hierarchical:02 seems:03 ought:03 character:03 namespace:06 namespace:06 marketing:93 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: A better way to create a hierarchical namespace seems to be to use some character _other than_ '.' (dot) to separate the levels. For instance: Pxp_document Net_httpclient (nearly) This allows a third party to come along and add packages to the same "namespace", eg. Pxp_myextension. Using dot / -pack doesn't allow extension and doesn't allow the package to be spread over several cma files. Rich. (I'm not claiming that I've used this convention in my own packages, but I ought to have done ...) -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com