Re: [Caml-list] META file standards for ppx extensions

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Freitag, den 10.04.2015, 14:23 +0200 schrieb Daniel Bünzli:
> Le jeudi, 9 avril 2015 à 14:24, Dario Teixeira a écrit :
> > Below you'll find sample META files for each case.
> 
> One thing this doesn't seem to answer is where the ppx binary is installed. Doing a  
> 
> > find .opam/4.02.1/lib -name "META" | xargs cat | grep "^ *ppx"
> 
> On my machine yields the following:  
>   
> ppx = "ppx_lwt"
> ppx = "./ppx_metaquot"
> ppx(-byte)="./ppx_xtmpl"
> 
> ppx(byte)="./ppx_xtmpl.byte"
> 
> which seems inconsistant with the semantics of fields in META files which usually express their object w.r.t. to the package directory.  

It is described in the man page for META. A command is not an object
file, and it would be inconsistent with the conceptual peculiarities if
we handled commands as objects.

Gerd
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