Re: [Caml-list] Camelia progress, indenter

[Romain Bardou <Romain.Bardou@lri.fr>]

Kuba Ober a écrit :
>> I'm not sure that parsing ocamlbuild file is the right thing to do. For
>> a simple OCaml project (which would probably mean most Camelia
>> projects), there are no OCamlBuild files at all.
>>
>> Mmmhhh.... there's .itarget (i.e. a list of files you wish generated
>> after compilation), but that's about it. And, again, most projects don't
>> have any.
> 
> OK, so I'll focuse on .itarget instead, since that's the thing that the
> debugger has to cooperate with to decide what executable to run and debug.

Err... I'm not sure .itarget is what you want. It's close of what you 
want, sure, but you may have several .itarget for the same project, 
things like that.

A typical project may have:
   * some source files (.ml .mli .mly .mll);
   * several main targets (.byte .native .mllib .mlpack), that may or 
may not be put together in one or several .itarget;
   * a documentation (.odocl);
   * some special rules (_tags myocamlbuild.ml), like some libraries to use;
   * a configure script.
This is not, IMO, easily relatable to the project itself, which is 
simply a list of files...

Given a list of files, an IDE can guess interesting targets such as:
   * .docdir/index.html for each .odocl;
   * .cma .cmxa for each .mllib;
   * .cmo for each .mlpack.
But potentially every file can generate several interesting targets. For 
instance, from the file x.mlpack, one can generate x.cmo, x.cmx, x.cma, 
x.cmxa, x.mli, or even x.docdir/index.html.

IMO, simply allowing to view the whole contents of a directory is 
enough, especially thanks to the fact that ocamlbuild does not pollute 
your source directory.

-- 
Romain Bardou