From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA07295; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:54:14 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07522 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:54:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from moby.atcorp.com (moby.atcorp.com [204.72.172.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hALHsB116942 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:54:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from atcorp.com (seahorse.atcorp.com [204.72.172.13]) by moby.atcorp.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id hALHv0Z25816; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:57:00 -0600 Message-ID: <3FBE5110.7090809@atcorp.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:53:20 -0600 From: Eric Dahlman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skaller@ozemail.com.au CC: Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building large and portable projects References: <20031120195614.GB441@gallu.homelinux.org> <000f01c3afd1$30033c90$0274a8c0@PWARP> <20031121052549.GA8599@davidb.org> <008301c3aff3$1030e760$0274a8c0@PWARP> <20031121064950.GA836@gallu.homelinux.org> <1069431167.5426.45.camel@pelican> In-Reply-To: <1069431167.5426.45.camel@pelican> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 interscript:01 ocamldoc:01 fixpoints:01 interscript:01 converge:01 worse:03 wrote:03 slightly:03 alter:95 output:05 eric:06 depends:07 source:07 generated:08 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners