From: Grant Olson <kgo@grant-olson.net>
To: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building multiple configurations?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:32:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA81A46.1030004@grant-olson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC857672-A641-46A1-B320-54D316D00AAC@wanadoo.fr>
On 3/22/2010 9:13 PM, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
>>
>> I've got a configuration file that's a .ml file. And I do want it to be
>> an .ml file that gets included at compile time, not some .txt config
>> file that gets read in at runtime. I'm building two different versions
>> of my app, with two different configurations.
>
> Why ? Why ? Why not having your app configurable with a txt file
> or some command line flags like every other programs ?
>
Because it's an elaborate configuration. I don't want to write an
equally elaborate parser when I've already got ocaml to do that for me.
I'd rather get a compile-time error than a runtime error if the syntax
is bad. And the app isn't designed to be user-configured.
>>
>> Basically, I want to do the same thing as a C #ifdef:
>>
>> #ifdef VERSION2
>> ... include version one
>> #else
>> ... include version two
>> #endif
>
> People use that because they want to do different things depending on the architecture, or
> if some dependencies are present or not. Do you have the same requirement here ?
>
They also use it for things like debug/release build. But I suppose you
could say that the two configurations have totally different
dependencies for these purposes.
I know what I'm doing is a little weird. But I have my reasons for
wanting to do it this way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 0:35 Grant Olson
2010-03-23 1:13 ` [Caml-list] " Yoann Padioleau
2010-03-23 1:32 ` Grant Olson [this message]
2010-03-23 1:56 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-03-23 3:06 ` Grant Olson
2010-03-23 1:37 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-03-23 1:47 ` [Caml-list] " Grant Olson
2010-03-23 8:54 ` Daniel Bünzli
2010-03-23 5:50 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
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