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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: moosotc@gmail.com, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interface(.mli) location
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:22:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <378f6aa4-7e9d-19ee-2e45-93f386349703@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D901350423CC@Remus.metastack.local>

> a) Delete ./a.cmi as part of your build procedure.

Can this design option trigger difficulties in your file system configuration?


>    This isn't ideal, though, because you lose the type-checking against d/a.cmi

Would you like to explain this conclusion a bit more?


> c) Implement a new option in the compiler driver which suppresses
>    the automatic generation of .cmi files (e.g. ocamlc -c -I d -no-cmi a.ml)

I would find such a command parameter also useful.
Will any more fine-tuning be considered for the safer handling
of interface descriptions and corresponding implementations?

Regards,
Markus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-09  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08 16:09 moosotc
2016-08-08 17:03 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-08-08 17:12   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-08-08 17:16   ` moosotc
2016-08-08 18:30     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 18:57       ` moosotc
2016-08-08 19:39         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 19:59           ` moosotc
2016-08-08 22:54             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09  8:45               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 16:26                 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 17:55                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 10:56               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:43                 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:46                   ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:08                     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:35                       ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:59                         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 19:55                           ` moosotc
2016-08-10  8:20                             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-10 10:38                               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:33             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:38               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 19:02                 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09  9:22           ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-08-09 16:32             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:10               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 18:26                 ` David Allsopp

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