Re: [Caml-list] Package renamings for sexplib, bin_prot and a few other camlp4 syntax extensions

[Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>]

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org> wrote:

> > Do you know of any tool that rely on this?
>
> OASIS it the most notable [1].
>

​Ah, I didn't know about this hack​, and apparently it's the same hack for
merlin. Well, we can certainly add ".syntax" packages to pa_sexp_conv and
others then


> 1. Delete `project.0.3` from the repository and add new `project.0.3-???`
> with a fixed build system
> 2. Retrospectively modify `project.0.3` build system and upload a new
> tarball without changing a library.
>

​I was thinking of:

3. release project.0.3.1, keeping project.0.3 unchanged

That the same as what one would have to do if the API changed in an
incompatible way.


> Also, some packages, may encode library names in the code itself. For
> example, bap uses this to track dependencies of dynamically loaded plugins.
> Merlin has a heuristics, that
> guesses requested syntax extensions based on package names.
>

​For merlin and oasis we just need to add pa_sexp_conv.syntax, we'll do
that.
I don't know bap very well, does it have "sexplib.syntax" hardcoded ​in its
source code or is the same situation as merlin and oasis?

-- 
Jeremie

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