Re: [Caml-list] OCaml script on windows (was Re: [ANN] React 1.0.0)

["Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>]

Le samedi, 12 avril 2014 à 13:41, Adrien Nader a écrit :

> In a few words, today you can expect a posix shell but this isn't very
> future-proof. However I'd probably not change much the current build
> system: process management in OCaml is more work than in shell and a
> arewrite would take time for little benefit, all while the environment
> is evolving rapidly.

Future-proof is what interests me. In my case the package build script needs a single ocamlbuild invocation and write one (.install) file so that wouldn't be atrocious to manage, there's no cp, mv, install etc, I leave that to my friend opam-installer. Actually I'm interested in rewriting these script in .ml for readability, abstraction and maybe having a more readable command line interface through a handful of combinators and the Arg module. So if these things become ml scripts the cross platform way of invoking them would then just become:  

    ocaml pkg/build

rather than just

    pkg/build

that would take care of the fact that windows wouldn't understand #!/usr/bin/env ocaml ?

Daniel

P.S. Is there any tutorial/instructions that shows us how ocaml development occurs/should be done on windows ? Packager instructions about dos and don'ts would be helpful too.