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Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:52:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <69c5d809b89ebdc663eb45a2b422718c@whitequark.org> References: <53BFE73E.6060106@gmail.com> <1F6CA9F698BB4509800C3FD280CE0ACB@erratique.ch> <69c5d809b89ebdc663eb45a2b422718c@whitequark.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:52:44 +0100 Message-ID: From: Mark Shinwell To: Peter Zotov Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= , Benjamin Canou , "caml-list@inria.fr" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Validation-by: mshinwell@janestreet.com Subject: Re: [Caml-list] proposal for finding, loading and composing ppx preprocessors On 11 July 2014 15:36, Peter Zotov wrote: > I wonder if we should just get rid of a Unix-like build pipeline entirely, > and just make a hybrid frontend-buildsystem that would use compiler-libs > and never execute an external OCaml process. This would make builds even > faster and it's the logical conclusion of Alain's suggestion. (There have already been discussions about such a system at Cambridge.) Mark