Re: [Caml-list] Forcing OCamlbuild to compile a file before another

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

Here is a preliminary patch to implement the [ocamldep -paths] option.
  https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/146

I would like to experiment with the use of the option from ocamlbuild
itself (or hear back from someone's experiments) to make sure the
feature is actually useful. Unfortunately I won't have time to do much
myself in the next two weeks, so that would not be before March.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Dario Teixeira
<dario.teixeira@nleyten.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I don't expect touching OCamldep to be very difficult. I'd be glad to
>> offer the time to provide a patch for the -paths option; ocamldep is a
>> small codebase and I don't expect much reluctance from the maintainers
>> to add a new feature (the code should be simple, and not affect
>> existing behaviors). That may require that you wait for the next
>> release in a few months; if you really needed to, you can probably
>> hack a simple external tool with the same feature today using the
>> compiler-libs.
>
>
> Thanks Gabriel: your work would be much appreciated, and I would be glad
> to test it both in dummy examples and in a real library (namely Lambdoc).
> As for the timing, it won't be a problem for me to wait for 4.03 before
> making a 1.0-final release of Lambdoc, particularly if the compiler team
> sticks to the recent pattern of gifting the community with a summer release.
> Moreover, it wouldn't surprise me if some more edge cases are found in the
> meantime...
>
> Best regards,
> Dario Teixeira
>
>
>
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