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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [ANN] oasis v0.2.0: Architecture for building OCaml libraries and applications
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:50:39 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnic3qof.r67.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik1qu2ctP1BZ8nxsmurcwTf4LrC_C69C0JW0r5y@mail.gmail.com>

On 22-10-2010, bluestorm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>wrote:
>
>> Have you tried the "revamped" quickstart subcommand. I am trying to make
>> the creation of _oasis as easy as possible...
>>
>>
>
>> If you have any suggestions to help make "lighter", I'll be happy. BTW,
>> when you say "heavier", is it in term of complexity, of size of the
>> generated setup.ml or something else?
>
>
> I think it's mostly a question of getting used to the new features of oasis.
> Oasis much more things than with a META (configuration, compilation, etc.),
> so the downside is that there are more things to specify in a _oasis file
> than in a META file.
>

Indeed.

> During my work with various such tools (Makefile, META, etc.), I found out
> that I rely strongly on example files that I can copy/paste and
> modify/adapt. With time I have accumulated some templates for
> Makefile/META/_tags/myocamlbuild.ml covering my basics need, and I know
> where to look for more advanced things to imitate. I have not yet
> accumulated a comprehensive set of reusable _oasis files (though the
> documentation is certainly in the good direction), but I think it's just a
> matter of time.
>

There are some examples linked from here:
http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/documentation.html
And direct links to various other project that use OASIS in the real
life here:
http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/alreadyusing.html

I will be happy to add your examples or projects there, if you
accumulate the same knowledge as with other tools.

>
> > It's a triviality to say but I'm quite happy with the change in
>> command-line
>> > invocation style (OASIS -setup => oasis setup). Four small comments
>> > regarding this : [..]
>>
>> All this seems quite reasonable. May I ask you to submit feature
>> requests about this on the BTS?
>>
>>
> Done.
>

Great, they will probably be in the 0.3.0 release.

Cheers,
Sylvain Le Gall


      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-21 23:03 Sylvain Le Gall
2010-10-22 12:54 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2010-10-22 13:01   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-10-23  6:08     ` [Caml-list] " Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-10-22 17:00 ` [Caml-list] " bluestorm
2010-10-22 17:51   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-10-22 19:41     ` [Caml-list] " bluestorm
2010-10-22 19:50       ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]

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