From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA13464; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA15626 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eris.rz.uni-saarland.de (eris.rz.uni-saarland.de [134.96.7.8]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i86EBpQ9029548 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:51 +0200 Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.254]) by eris.rz.uni-saarland.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i86EBojO1721644; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:50 +0200 (CST) Received: from mail.cs.uni-sb.de (mail.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.200]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.13.1/2004080400) with ESMTP id i86EBn5w006849; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.st.cs.uni-sb.de (goscinny.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.235.32]) by mail.cs.uni-sb.de (8.13.1/2004080200) with ESMTP id i86EBkm2010979; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: email: Host goscinny.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.235.32] claimed to be mail.st.cs.uni-sb.de Received: from [134.96.235.101] (jonagold.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.235.101]) by mail.st.cs.uni-sb.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA521BDE5; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:11:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87r7pfh9mc.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> References: <4139ECD3.1050708@cs.caltech.edu> <001e01c492a6$872c7280$19b0e152@warp> <413A0921.7030607@ntlworld.com> <413A1E89.10806@libertysurf.fr> <1094361655.3352.476.camel@pelican.wigram> <87hdqc3kfr.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> <08C9709F-FFD4-11D8-97B9-000A95CB833C@cs.uni-sb.de> <87r7pfh9mc.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: caml-list From: Christian Lindig Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:12:14 +0200 To: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.1 (eris.rz.uni-saarland.de [134.96.7.8]); Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:11:50 +0200 (CEST) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.0.6; AVE 6.27.0.6; VDF 6.27.0.47 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413C7027.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; lindig:01 lindig:01 uni-sb:01 caml-list:01 marcin:01 'qrczak':01 kowalczyk:01 overwrite:01 uni-sb:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 sep:01 checking:01 compile:02 modules:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:20 PM, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > If changes to a module didn't result in changing its interface, my > compiler is careful to not overwrite the interface file, so modules > depending on this module will not be recompiled by make. > > How does Jam deal with this? Before we compile a module, we don't know > whether modules which use it will need to be recompiled. In my understanding, Jam can't deal with this (and hence OCaml). While I find a separation of planning and execution highly desirable because it enables compilation of build scripts, there must be some kind of checking possible while a plan is executed. -- Christian -- http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/~lindig/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners