Re: [Caml-list] About ocamlbuild

[Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>]

On 11/15/2012 4:48 PM, Xavier Clerc wrote:
>> 3 - Finally, I find the idea of tags good, for backward compatibility
>> reasons (you do not have to change your code), but not enough. For
>> instance, in haskell (and some compilers written in ocaml), you can
>> add "tags" at the beginning of your files. You would start your
>> ocaml files with comments such as:
>>
>> (* #OPTIONS -rectypes *)
> Well, I find tags pretty convenient, and do not dislike the comment
> approach. However, I am pretty sure I do not want the related information
> to be scattered over multiple locations.
It's exactly this reason that I'm strongly in favor of magic comments or 
pragmas or something in .ml files to do do this kind of thing.  
Splitting the data needed to compile a module into two parts: the module 
and a makefile (or _tags or OMakefile or whatever) seems a violation of 
your "multiple locations" policy.  While I grant that some compilation 
options (whether to compile in debug/profiling/native mode, location of 
external libraries) should not be included in a source file, I'm 
strongly in favor of having the build system work out the details of 
dependencies (internal to project and external, installed in global 
location) and even what camlp4 to run based on the contents of the file 
itself and not elsewhere.

E.