Re: [Caml-list] Coccinelle and the Dumper module

["Sébastien Hinderer" <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr>]

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Gabriel!

Sébastien.

Gabriel Scherer (2016/02/23 06:46 -0500):
> This "dump" code has lived on in Extlib (to which Richard
> participated, I believe), and is also part of Batteries. I know that
> ygrek, Extlib's current maintainers, has done some fixes to it (I
> think we ported them into Batteries), so you may want to look there.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Sébastien Hinderer
> <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr> wrote:
> > Dear Richard,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your prompt, positive and helpful respnse!
> >
> >> Yes.  I'm not sure if it was ever licensed properly, but I'm willing
> >> now to (re?)license it under a liberal 3 clause, no advertising
> >> requirement, BSD license:
> >>
> >>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD?rd=Licensing/BSD#New_BSD_.28no_advertising.2C_3_clause.29
> >>
> >> This is pretty close to "do what you like with it".  I'm CC-ing this
> >> to caml-list to put this in the public record.
> >
> > Great! Thanks!
> >
> >> > Is there a more recent version of the code available?
> >>
> >> Not as far as I know, but if you search for "dumper.mli" you will see
> >> many copies in different places, so I suppose you'll have to go check
> >> if people have added useful features that you want.
> >
> > Okay. I think we are fine with what we have, at the moment.
> >
> > So there were two warnings, one about an unused "open Printf" and one
> > about an unused variable.
> >
> > The attached version of the module fixes them.
> >
> > I may also get rid of the "open Obj" statement and qualify all the
> > references to this module as I fnd this style more clear.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sébastien.
> >