From: Eric Dahlman <edahlman@atcorp.com>
To: skaller@ozemail.com.au
Cc: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building large and portable projects
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:53:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBE5110.7090809@atcorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069431167.5426.45.camel@pelican>
skaller wrote:
> But it is much worse. A target can
> depend on itself. Interscript assumes that.
> An example is a Latex build, which depends
> on auxilliary files generated by the build
> [Ocamldoc output can take 4 passes to fixate
> for example].
>
> This leads to the first novel idea. Fixpoints.
> Interscript is based on that idea.
Just to be pedantic ;-) A Tex or Latex build is not guaranteed to
converge so you may not have a fixed point in the computation. They can
oscillate and it may be necessary to slightly alter the source document
to get things to settle down.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 18:47 Martin Jambon
2003-11-20 19:56 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-21 1:45 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-11-21 5:25 ` David Brown
2003-11-21 5:48 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-11-21 6:45 ` David Brown
2003-11-21 6:49 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-21 16:12 ` skaller
2003-11-21 17:53 ` Eric Dahlman [this message]
2003-11-22 14:45 ` skaller
2003-11-21 19:04 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-22 14:34 ` skaller
2003-11-22 18:50 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-22 14:32 ` Martin Berger
2003-11-22 14:55 ` skaller
2003-11-22 17:08 ` David Brown
2003-11-22 16:48 ` skaller
2003-11-23 3:25 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-11-23 4:29 ` David Brown
2003-11-23 17:21 ` skaller
2003-11-22 17:13 ` David Brown
2003-11-24 18:02 ` Ken Rose
2003-11-24 19:04 ` Christian Lindig
2003-11-21 16:32 ` Martin Jambon
2003-11-21 18:57 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-21 9:14 ` Christian Lindig
2003-11-21 9:28 ` Richard Jones
2003-11-21 15:35 ` skaller
2003-11-21 17:05 ` Jason Hickey
2003-11-21 18:55 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-21 19:30 ` [Caml-list] Omake [Was: Building large and portable projects] Aleksey Nogin
2003-11-21 20:39 ` Damien
2003-11-22 3:30 ` Aleksey Nogin
2003-11-21 23:48 ` sylvain.le-gall
2003-11-22 1:32 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-11-22 3:51 ` Aleksey Nogin
2003-11-28 16:29 ` [Caml-list] Building large and portable projects David Brown
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