[Caml-list] Re: working %.pp.ml target with ocamfind/ocamlbuild

[Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:18 PM, bob zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Btw, there's something wrong with the rule "%.pp.ml", I don't remember
> exactly where it's, for your interest, you can have a look at
>
> https://bitbucket.org/HongboZhang/camlp4/src/e88f431db722/myocamlbuild.ml

OK. I'll have a look. BTW: At first glance it looks like a lot of good
customisations, thanks for sharing, I will speak about it to you it
later once I got my head around your plugin, which definitely will
happen soon.

> If you take a look at ICFP 12's paper about Shake, the idea is essentially
> the same as 'ocamlbuild', and the idea is cool, but the implementation of
> ocamlbuild is fragile and buggy.

I watched a video some months ago about Haskell's Shake. I liked it. It
became open source some time ago. Agreed that ocamlbuild need some more
love to make it better. I wouldn't replace ocamlbuild with anything,
just if there weren't some problems, which in fact are not that
significant.

-- Wojciech