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From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Best way to choose an implementation of a lib ?
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:31:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201173115.GD16247@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438F2D48.7030105@univ-savoie.fr>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
> Eric Cooper a crit :
> > And yet another is to use symbolic links, for example
> >     a.ml -> a_optimized_impl.ml
> > or
> >     a.ml -> a_reference_impl.ml
> > 
> 
> This is not reasonable for a library. You can not ask the user to
> change symbolic link in /usr/lib/ocaml ...

The original poster said he wanted to distribute two versions of a
library with the same interface (.mli).  This is just a way of
*building* those two different library versions, only the binaries of
which would get distributed.

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-01 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-30  9:05 Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-30 12:19 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2005-11-30 14:38   ` How to compile different implementations of the same lib Daniel Bünzli
2005-11-30 16:09     ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2005-12-01  1:07       ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-12-01  1:53         ` malc
2005-12-01 17:03         ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-12-01 17:54           ` skaller
2005-12-01 20:09             ` Richard Jones
2005-12-01 23:47               ` skaller
2005-12-02  3:29               ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-12-01 21:33             ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-12-02  3:06               ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-11-30 16:24   ` how to detect .cmx incompatibility Stefano Zacchiroli
2005-11-30 19:48   ` [Caml-list] Best way to choose an implementation of a lib ? Eric Cooper
2005-12-01 17:05     ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-12-01 17:31       ` Eric Cooper [this message]

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