Re: [Caml-list] META file standards for ppx extensions

["François Bobot" <francois.bobot@cea.fr>]

On 10/04/2015 13:55, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le vendredi, 10 avril 2015 à 13:04, François Bobot a écrit :
>> On 10/04/2015 11:42, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
>>> It's all about having a *composable* toolchain vs. inflexible monolithic black boxes.
>>
>> In order to gain flexibility, do you tried to link with findlib?
>
> If you are refering to this
>
> https://github.com/whitequark/ocaml-findlib/blob/master/src/findlib/findlib.mli
>
> then it doesn't seem to be much different from `ocamlfind query`, which as I already mentioned I
> had hard time to use to achieve my goals. But then maybe I should simply short-circuit all the
> ocamlfind flags logic and simply query the objects in the META files (which I didn't understand
> at the time could be done by simply using  "(%property)" notation; I used to fight with the
> various other % formatters).

findlib.mli doesn't implement the various % formatters. And it gives a much easier way to access the 
properties than to parse the output of ocamlfind.

You can look at the implementation of the frontend for how to use the library (ex: to use 
Fl_split.in_words) :
https://github.com/whitequark/ocaml-findlib/blob/master/src/findlib/frontend.ml

Regards,

-- 
François