BCP relating to -pack?

[Alex Baretta <alex@barettadeit.com>]

The AS/Xcaml and FreerP projects are now getting big enough that
namespace conflicts begin to emerge within them. We are thinking about
changing our build system so as to encapsulate libraries as single
cmo/cmi packages to introduce a hierarchy in the namespace. The problem
I foresee is that the -pack directive to the compiler breaks the code,
because all modules referring to module X within xyz.cma would need to
open module Xyz. Patching the entire project is in my opinion contrary
to the "a posteriori" approach to namespace management taken by the Caml
team with the -pack directive. So here is my question.

Has anyone already faced this kind of problem on a fairly large project
( ~ 100 kloc)? What are the Best Current Practices relating to -pack?

Alex

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