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From: Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Best way to choose an implementation of a lib ?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:05:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438F2D48.7030105@univ-savoie.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051130194851.GB14312@localhost>

Eric Cooper a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:19:30PM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> 
>>From: Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
>>
>>>Let say I want two distribute two(or more) implementations of a library
>>>with the .mli for all ...
>>>
>>>Is there a way to choose the implementation at link time ?
>>>[...]
>>
>>Directories seem a possible solution.
>>[...] 
>>An alternative to distinct directories is to create libraries (.cma/.cmxa).
> 
> 
> 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 ...

> (Note that when using "make", you have to be careful about stale
> object files after switching the symlink.  It's a good idea to do a
> "make clean" at the same time.)
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-01 17:05 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 [this message]
2005-12-01 17:31       ` Eric Cooper

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