My understanding is that this OUPS meeting is precisely intended to coincide with an "official annoucement" of the system, so I would recommend waiting for a couple more weeks before looking at the system (surely they have polishing planned before that) and discussing it.

I would tend to agree with your implicit remark about unclear project status (internal/external, announced/secret, released/experimental) in the general case; but I understand that everyone is free to handle their project as they deem acceptable. I'm personally fine with waiting a bit -- and this is still better than ocp-build or ocaml-java.


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
Hello,

Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr writes:

> * Jane Street : "Jenga: towards a correct and scalable build system"

I've been searching my mail archives and I could not find an official
announcement of Jenga (it was alluded to in the announcement of Core
Suite 109.11, then mentioned in further announcements and in the
ocamlbuild thread of late July). I had a look at the examples in the
github repository, and it looks like a very verbose way of writing
dependencies (see for instance
https://github.com/janestreet/jenga/blob/master/examples/hello/JengaRoot.ml).

I'm sure I'm missing the motivation behind this new build system. How
does it compare to the existing ones?

Thanks,

Alan

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