RE: [Caml-list] Interface(.mli) location

[David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>]

SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> > I think the use-case is too niche to justify breaking backwards
> > compatibility.
> 
> Do you care for development challenges around parallel software builds?
> 
> Would you like to consider other possibilities?

I don't follow you here, I'm afraid. My point was I think it better to add something new which fixes this, rather than risk breaking other things by changing existing behaviour.

> > That's potentially a very subtle way to break someone else's existing
> build system.
> 
> How do you think about the application of an extra environment variable
> (or a command line parameter) which specifies the preferred directory for
> the storage of compiled interface descriptions?

What does that solve?

> > The existing behaviour is precisely documented in the manual
> 
> I find that there is still room for interpretation.

What kind of room, though? The only ambiguity I can see is precisely how you handle references on the command line including directory names.

> > (even if it's not necessarily the best approach).
> 
> Are you looking for corresponding software extensions?

Afraid I don't follow that.


David