Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] React 1.0.0

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

Le vendredi, 11 avril 2014 à 17:12, Markus Weißmann a écrit :
> while at it, could you please provide a non-opam style installation
> routine? (Oasis, Makefile, ..)

Sorry but the answer is no. 1) I don't have the time for that 2) oasis is a broken idea that gets in the way 3) I don't want to maintain more than one build system 4) I don't want to have to implement an install procedure in each of my packages.  

For react the build system is very simple, from the root directory of the distribution you have to invoke a single shell script as follow:

./pkg/build $HAS_NATIVE  

Where HAS_NATIVE should be "true" if you have ocamlopt and "false" if you don't. This will build the artefacts using ocamlbuild and generate a react.install file at the toplevel directory of the distribution. You can then either process this file yourself or more recommended directly use the opam-installer tool distributed with opam to process this file and install the files at a given $PREFIX.

Note that this procedure is the same for the dozen of packages I distribute except there may be more booleans to pass to the `build` script to specify optional dependencies. See e.g. Vg's pkg/build usage: https://github.com/dbuenzli/vg/blob/master/pkg/build#L3

Feel free to ask me any question if you run into problems.

Best,

Daniel