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From: Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANN: exn-source  - exception backtraces with source code printing
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:15:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5444FCD9.2090704@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98bddccae44b9764b252efd7ad3614c5@whitequark.org>

On 10/20/2014 02:06 PM, Peter Zotov wrote:
> On 2014-10-20 15:52, John Whitington wrote:
>> Noted. I'd like to add functionality like this. The first thing I'm
>> going to add is automatic finding of the stdlib, since this just
>> requires parsing the output of "ocamlc -config".
>
> I would take this directly from OCaml configuration (module Config,
> -package compiler-libs.common). No shelling out needed.
>
>> Unfortunately, I don't believe most OPAM packages install their
>> source, just the .mli files. I wonder how much extra space installing
>> source would take on average, and if people think it's worth it, for
>> this or other reasons.
>
> I think it's mainly due to lack of infrastructure that could install
> sources (eg OASIS couldn't easily be coerced into doing that). You could
> probably make opam do the grunt work for you; no need to have the sources
> installed in the same places as mli or binaries!

Isn't opam -b or --keep-build-dir supposed to keep the sources?

-- 
Regards,
Francois.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-19 18:03 John Whitington
2014-10-19 18:26 ` Gabriel Scherer
2014-10-19 18:55   ` John Whitington
2014-10-19 19:05     ` Gabriel Scherer
     [not found]       ` <54441347.904@coherentgraphics.co.uk>
2014-10-19 19:50         ` Gabriel Scherer
2014-10-20  9:15 ` Nicolas Boulay
2014-10-20  9:35 ` Peter Zotov
2014-10-20 11:52   ` John Whitington
2014-10-20 12:06     ` Peter Zotov
2014-10-20 12:15       ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2014-10-20 18:28         ` Török Edwin
2014-10-23  8:32 ` John Whitington
2014-10-23 11:48   ` Sébastien Hinderer
2014-10-23 16:43     ` Gabriel Scherer

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