Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Unit tests

[John M. S. <sk...@oz...>]

Brian Hurt wrote:


> This is what I was talking about when I mentioned "makefile hacks".  
> Unfortunately, I know enough about the build environment of Windows 
> (despite several years busily repressing memories) that I am wary of doing 
> and scripting hacks.  The only scripting language I am sure exists is 
> Ocaml.


Then use it. Only, please get rid of primary makefiles.

Make is a very stupid, ugly, unworkable tool.
Its use should be avoided at all costs.
It offers only one advantage: familiarity for uses to
say

	make

to build something. I don't know if this can be done
but a simple makefile:

all:
	ocaml xlmake <arguments>

which simply invokes the ocaml program
xlmake with the arguments to the command
make, would even solve that problem.

Otherwise I'm happy to read the doce enough
to learn I have to type

	xlmake

or
	ocaml xlmake.ml

to do a make.

You may note that to do this efficiently would
require some kind of topological dependency sorting:
well, ExtLib has a data structure for that doesn't it? :-)

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