On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:33:36PM +0200, Sven wrote:
> That said i don't really understand the rest of what you say here.
I'll try to explain better.
WRT ocaml toplevel loops, from ocaml 3.03 will be possible to load
external modules using a #-directive (I don't remembre what) like #load
or similar, this without have to build a custom ocaml toplevel using
ocamlmktop. Currently if you want to try Unix module you have to build a
customized toplevel with ocamlmktop command.
I don't know exactly how this loading works but it needs .so files and
it search for them in a default directory and in directory specified at
cmd line by user ("ocaml -I /usr/lib/mydir" for example).
Well, if we leave all .so files where upstream installation put them, a
user may have to specify several -I at command line to use different
modules. If we reach an agreement on a location we may install all .so
file in this location and compile ocaml with default .so search dir set
to this location.
In such a way a user that install a new module that require a .so file
to be used in toplevel have nothing to do, he only has to run 'ocaml'
and the new module can be loaded in the toplevel.
Is now clearer?
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