Re: [Caml-list] Scripting in ocaml

["Ian Zimmerman" <nobrowser@gmail.com>]

On 12/26/06, Aleksey Nogin <nogin@metaprl.org> wrote:

> Not quite scripting in OCaml, but related - the OMake build system comes
> with its own shell interpreter - osh. The language is not OCaml, but
> it's a functional language that was _specifically_ designed as a
> scripting language, so I would argue that writing scripts in osh is more
> convenient that scripting in OCaml (although, of course, for somebody
> already familiar with OCaml, learning osh might be a bit harder that
> learning some hypothetical scripting extension of OCaml).
>
> Note that if the goal is specifically "scripts to perform various build-
> and development-related tasks" as you've mentioned, then I would
> definitely suggest looking at OMake and osh - there the scripting
> language is the same as the build specification language and you can
> inline osh scriplets directly into "make-style" build rules of OMake.

Does it handle building in general, or just OCaml-based projects?  For example,
can it deduce header dependencies for a C file - possibly with a
plugin, like cons
or scons?  I couldn't use one OMake for building OCaml projects and
make for others.

Ian