Re: [cameleon-dev] Findlib and beyond...

[Jérôme Marant]

Debian User <address@hidden> writes:

 
>> Not really, I adapted Stephano's META files and I never tried to
>> improve them. I don't even know if they work.
>> 
>
> Indeed  they don't work... The simplest way is to do "ocamlfind list"
> and you see that they are not recognized...

I got a bug report from Stephano even.

> In fact, if you want it to be recognized, you need to have a META ( and
> not a META.okey ). The best way to make it work is to put the lib in a
> different dir ( okey goes in /usr/lib/ocaml/3.06/okey ). 

This is also why I think it sucks: the META file should be usable
everywhere and shouldn't depend on some location.
 
>> Isn't there any way to automate the creation of META files? :P

> I don't like ocamlfind guess... Writing a META is a five lines jobs...
> Not so hard ( comparable to all the pkg-config scheme ).

Yes, but better for those who don't want to get into it ;-)

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Jérôme Marant