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From: Aleksey Nogin <nogin@metaprl.org>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:12:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B942B8.8060909@metaprl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186355977.6523.55.camel@rosella.wigram>

On 05.08.2007 16:19, skaller wrote:

> To do this, it must read filenames written with / in it,
> but use filenames with \ replacing the /. I'd say this is
> mandatory, so the same build control file will work on
> all platforms. Then you need to document that Unix filenames
> must be used, even on Windows.
> 
> Note: although *Ocaml* basenames cannot have spaces in them,
> the directories that contain them can. So Ocamlbuild must be
> sure to quote all filenames, in case they have spaces.
> This includes allowing quotes in the input specs.
> Unix file systems allow spaces in filenames too, and many
> modern Desktops will have 'folders' with spaces in
> (if a 'doze or fruit user gets Ubuntu in their office).

I do not know if ocamlbuild addresses these, but I know that OMake does ;-).

Aleksey


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 23:19 ocamlbuild skaller
2007-08-06  7:36 ` [Caml-list] ocamlbuild Adrien
2007-08-06  9:34   ` Adrien
2007-08-06 12:14     ` David Allsopp
2007-08-06 16:19     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-08-08  4:12 ` Aleksey Nogin [this message]
2007-08-09 18:35 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-09-05  8:36 ocamlbuild skaller
2007-09-17 11:56 ` [Caml-list] ocamlbuild Nicolas Pouillard
2007-09-17 16:21   ` skaller
2007-09-25 11:45     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-09-25 14:19       ` skaller
2007-09-26  8:42         ` Nicolas Pouillard

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