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From: Dawid Toton <dawid.toton@uj.edu.pl>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Toplevel - loading dependencies
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:23:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49675DE7.5030000@uj.edu.pl> (raw)

Another problem with loading modules in the toplevel:
I need to use the module A. So I write:
#load "A.cmo"
to get a messsage "Reference to undefined global B"
So I prepend a line:
#load B.cmo
 and get another "undefined global". Then it repeats prohibitively many 
times.
This is resolving dependencies by hand, one by one.

The solution would be to have a special version of cmo that knows 
locations of all other cmo's it depends on.

In special cases I could use cma archives, but this is only applicable 
when there is well defined and stable set of modules I need.
But in practice the modules I use in ocaml scripts are constantly 
evolving. It leads to having multiple cma aggregates and maintaining 
their building description. Again, lots of work.

If I put everything into one big cma, then I have to recompile it every 
small change. It takes so long time, that it would make no sense to use 
the interpreter at all.

Could I ask ocamlbuild to produce proper loading preamble for my scripts?

What is the right solution?

Dawid


             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09 14:23 Dawid Toton [this message]
2009-01-09 14:33 ` [Caml-list] " Matthieu Dubuget
2009-01-09 17:14 ` Florent Monnier
2009-01-09 18:13   ` Dawid Toton
2009-01-09 17:53 ` Peng Zang

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