Re: [Caml-list] releasing and publishing an OCaml program

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On 10/16/2015 08:24 PM, David CHEMOUIL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a self-contained, to the point, documentation or 
> tutorial detailing steps, or even commands and scripts to run in order 
> to release and publish an OCaml-programmed piece of software.

>
> So common tasks we'd like to automate are quite simple: adding the 
> commit number and/or a build number in the OCaml source code (e.g. to 
> display it when running the program),

This is not specific to Ocaml. It is a matter of build process.

Assuming a Linux system, you might have some rule in your Makefile 
similar to the (untested) one below:

ML_SOURCES=$(wildcard [a-z]*.ml)
ML_INTERFACES=$(wildcard [a-z]*.mli)
MD5SUM= md5sum

_timestamp.ml:
     date +'let my_timestamp="%c";;' > _timestamp.tmp

     (echo -n 'let my_lastgitcommit ="' ; \
        git log --format=oneline --abbrev=12 --abbrev-commit -q  \
          | head -1 | tr -d '\n\r\f\"' ; \
        echo '";;') >> _timestamp.tmp
     (echo -n 'let my_checksum ="'; cat $(sort $(ML_SOURCES)) $(sort 
$(ML_INTERFACES))| $(MD5SUM) | cut -d' ' -f1 | tr -d '\n\r\f\"\\' ; echo 
'";') >> _timestamp.tmp
     mv _timestamp.tmp _timestamp.ml

Cheers

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