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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: moosotc@gmail.com, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interface(.mli) location
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 20:10:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d906de84-c688-d2a0-2f4b-3204169ac8cd@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9013504CB7B@Remus.metastack.local>

>>> a) Delete ./a.cmi as part of your build procedure.
>>
>> Can this design option trigger difficulties in your file system
>> configuration?
> 
> What sort of difficulties do you mean?

Do software build systems track the existence of such a generated file?

Are you also concerned about a harder parallelisation there?


> d/a.cmi may constrain values defined in ./a.ml and you won't get
> the type-checking this way.

I would usually expect that these interface descriptions should be
kept consistent to some degree.


> I was just floating ideas - if it's actually useful, raise a Mantis PR!

Will another official bug report or feature request help to improve
the discussed situation?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-09 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08 16:09 moosotc
2016-08-08 17:03 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-08-08 17:12   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-08-08 17:16   ` moosotc
2016-08-08 18:30     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 18:57       ` moosotc
2016-08-08 19:39         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 19:59           ` moosotc
2016-08-08 22:54             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09  8:45               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 16:26                 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 17:55                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 10:56               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:43                 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:46                   ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:08                     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:35                       ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:59                         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 19:55                           ` moosotc
2016-08-10  8:20                             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-10 10:38                               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:33             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:38               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 19:02                 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09  9:22           ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 16:32             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:10               ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-08-09 18:26                 ` David Allsopp

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