caml-list - the Caml user's mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Development status of the dependency generator for OCaml
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:21:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e0dbe2f-3ff2-5f56-7d81-89f1eaad041b@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)

Hello,

I took a closer look at data which the tool “ocamldep” can provide.


* Compiled module interfaces (CMI files) do not depend on interface
  descriptions (MLI files) there.
  Is such dependency information interpreted as an optional detail?

* Compiled modules do also not depend on OCaml sources (ML files) there.
  Some of the generated make specifications indicate only a dependency on
  a single compiled module interface.


Do you expect that dependency data should be exported completely?


Another view:
It is usually expected that some dependencies can be handled by implicit
make rules. So I imagine that the provided data should only contain
extensions for the desired software build rules.
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Multiple-Rules.html

It seems that a bit of data is written too much so far according to this usage.
How would you like to improve the software situation further?

Regards,
Markus

             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-18 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-18 19:21 SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-07-21  9:19 ` David Allsopp
2017-07-21 11:30   ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-07-21 13:01     ` David Allsopp
2017-07-21 15:50       ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-07-21 16:16         ` David Allsopp
2017-07-21 17:07           ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-07-25 18:13           ` [Caml-list] Addition of a data export variant containing only required extensions for build dependency specifications SF Markus Elfring

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8e0dbe2f-3ff2-5f56-7d81-89f1eaad041b@users.sourceforge.net \
    --to=elfring@users.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).