Re: [Caml-list] Re: oasis packaging questions

[Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>]

On 03/09/2012 09:22 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2012, at 22:26, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
>>
>> 2012/3/8 Adrien<camaradetux@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 08/03/2012, Sylvain Le Gall<sylvain@le-gall.net>  wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> 2012/3/8 Daniel Bünzli<daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>:
>>>>> Le jeudi, 8 mars 2012 ŕ 09:31, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit :
>>>>>> setup.ml will be enough for me ;-) But I am biased.
>>>>>
>>>>> For distribution, I'm fine with that aswell. For developement setup.ml
>>>>> takes too much time to invoke (adds an overhead of 0.5s on my system).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That the parsing time because the file is big. I know this issue and
>>>> will try to improve that in the future. I think a 50% down size is
>>>> possible, that will bring this time to 250ms. Although, I don't think
>>>> that even for development env a 500ms delay is that big... I doubt to
>>>> be able to reduce to ~0s.
>>>
>>> For my own stuff, I've been using a Makefile which includes a rule to
>>> (re)compile setup.ml into an executable with ocamlc.opt (compiling
>>> with ocamlopt was too slow). My usual development machine isn't
>>> terribly fast and this has helped a lot.
>>>
>>> I think there was a mention of an issue though but it can help a lot.
>>
>> Make sense. So super quick hack!
>>
>> Add at the beginning of setup.ml:
>
> A Makefile works just fine (and making the autogenerated code less complex
> rather than more would be better).

May I suggest to generate an OcamlMakefile instead of a plain Makefile? :)
It might be simpler to generate, I think.

> This is the template Makefile I use:
> https://github.com/avsm/ocaml-github/blob/master/Makefile
>
> -anil
>