Re: ocamlbuild (was Re: [Caml-list] Re: GODI is shutting down)

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

I am not very interested in build systems. I use one (ocamlbuild) that
I find decent (has several known areas of improvement, but bear with
me), and instead of rewriting a new one from scratch¹ I decided that
maybe the existing one I could be improved to fix its shortcomings.
You know, by writing bug reports, and more importantly proposing
patches (to the code or the documentation), instead of just
complaining on the mailing-list. I'm not aware, so far, of a major
design problem that can't be incrementally fixed, and whose resolution
is worth the pain of switching to a completely new system.

¹: or juggling with three different unannounced build systems; I think
you forgot Jenga and the various adaptations of redo for OCaml; nobody
added OCaml rules to Shake as far as I know, but certainly that will
happen in the future.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp> wrote:
> On 07/26/2013 05:03 AM, Adrien Nader wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe this entry on the bugtracker is worth mentionning:
>>    "ocamlbuild should expose common interface as a library"
>>    http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5869
>>
>> More generally, ocamlbuild's development was mostly stalled but has
>> restarted recently. This should allow fixing many issues and
>> shortcomings.
>
>
> There is not only ocamlbuild!
>
> I would love to see projects such as obuild:
>
> https://github.com/vincenthz/obuild
>
> come out of the woods (like an official release announce if it is
> ready for mass consumption) and become the de facto gold standard.
>
> PS: even OCamlPro have written a tool to replace ocamlbuild
>     (ocp-build)...
>
>
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