Re: [Caml-list] GODI is shutting down

[Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>]

On 07/25/2013 02:05 AM, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
>> I think that's fair, but the devil is in the details. The core of OASIS
>> is sound, but is hampered by its need to build on top of ocamlfind
>> and ocamlbuild, and the ensuing impedance mismatches that follow (e.g.
>> manually editing _tags files, and trying to debug which tool a failure
>> happens in is an advanced operation). OPAM packages represent an output
>> collection of (several optionally built) ocamlfind packages, and
>> OASIS sits awkwardly in between these two right now, with ocamlbuild
>> crashing the party and getting drunk in the kitchen.
>
> While we're at it (and hoping a diversion might restores some
> constructiveness in this discussion), I have also been thinking about
> this aspect of OASIS that I don't really like. I use ocamlbuild
> -use-ocamlfind, but I'd rather build my _tags and myocamlbuild.ml
> files completely separately from OASIS

Personnally, I'd rather have a single human-readable file containing all 
the build information.

With the current setup in oasis used by a developper, you get:
a _tags file, a myocamlbuild.ml and you need a Makefile
on top of that (with some parts automatically generated) to pass more 
options to ocamlbuild.
Amazing!
But at least I see a clear culprit (ocamlbuild).

Regards,
F.