Re: [Jacques Garrigue: Re: [Caml-list] Re: 3.09.3 release candidate 2]

[sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org]

Hello, 

Stefano Zacchiroli writes: 

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:05:02AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > After reading this on the caml-list, I realized that my -dev libraries
> > haven't been including .cmx files, nor do most of the other ocaml dev
> > libraries I have installed.  Shouldn't we change the packaging policy
> > to recommend their inclusion?
>
> This has been brought to my attention this morning as well :) 
>
> We can recommend it in the policy indeed (read: please patch the policy
> accordingly), but I feel is more an issue of upstreams since we mostly
> invoke upstream install targets. 
>
> What about wording it as: "you should ship .cmx since ..., if upstream's
> install does not do that please push upstream a suitable patch" or
> something like that ... 
>
> Cheers. 

I think, we must also define a way to specify this in the META, with
something like :
archive(opt) = truc.cmxa
archive(opt,inline) = truc1.cmx truc2.cmx 

This will enable easier integration with other library/program (you will
only have to add a findlib predicate to have the inlining). 

Kind regard,
Sylvain Le Gall