Re: [Caml-list] GODI is shutting down

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

Le mercredi, 24 juillet 2013 à 18:05, Gabriel Scherer a écrit :
> While we're at it (and hoping a diversion might restores some
> constructiveness in this discussion), I have also been thinking about
> this aspect of OASIS that I don't really like. I use ocamlbuild
> -use-ocamlfind, but I'd rather build my _tags and myocamlbuild.ml
> files completely separately from OASIS, and avoid that intermixing of
> several tools.  

Yes. I have always done that during development since oasis was getting in my way. I don't want that indirection. I know how to use my build system, I don't want it to be generated by someone else.

But then I would use oasis to make releases which meant expressing these build rules in oasis which is not always obvious and/or possible without still needing to have to patch your _tags file (e.g. syntax extensions) and when things were not working you were left with that 350 loc myocamlbuild.ml file and an obnoxious _tags file that you didn't write.

At a certain point I realized that oasis was actually making very few things for me: basically generating the META and being able to express conditional dependencies. When I understood a little bit more about opam, its build: section and its .install files and read about META files I realized that cost/benefit of using oasis was too high.  

Personally I'm moving away from oasis for new packages and will gradually phase out its usage during maintenance release of my old packages. The path I'm taking from now on until something better emerges is described here [1].

Best,

Daniel

[1] http://lists.ocaml.org/pipermail/opam-devel/2013-July/000161.html