From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: moosotc@gmail.com, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interface(.mli) location
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 10:45:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6718eb74-9b8a-f386-6e7b-e77217f39f95@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D901350434D3@Remus.metastack.local>
> I think the use-case is too niche to justify breaking backwards compatibility.
Do you care for development challenges around parallel software builds?
Would you like to consider other possibilities?
> That's potentially a very subtle way to break someone else's existing build system.
How do you think about the application of an extra environment variable
(or a command line parameter) which specifies the preferred directory
for the storage of compiled interface descriptions?
> The existing behaviour is precisely documented in the manual
I find that there is still room for interpretation.
> (even if it's not necessarily the best approach).
Are you looking for corresponding software extensions?
Regards,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-09 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 16:09 moosotc
2016-08-08 17:03 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-08-08 17:12 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-08-08 17:16 ` moosotc
2016-08-08 18:30 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 18:57 ` moosotc
2016-08-08 19:39 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 19:59 ` moosotc
2016-08-08 22:54 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 8:45 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-08-09 16:26 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 17:55 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 10:56 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:43 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:46 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:08 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:35 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:59 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 19:55 ` moosotc
2016-08-10 8:20 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-10 10:38 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:33 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:38 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 19:02 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 9:22 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 16:32 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:10 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 18:26 ` David Allsopp
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