Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Future of ExtLib

[skaller <sk...@us...>]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 20:09, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> > http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/gildor/ocaml-fileutils.html
> 
> This looks *very* interesting and the license seems to be
> ExtLib-compatible. :)
> 
> However, for glancing at the code there are a couple of
> minor issues:
> 
> - It uses lexers and parsers for reducing path names to an
>   internal representation which seems like overkill. (Or
>   is it just me?)

Doing things 'the right way' can't be overkill can it?
I would expect this to be lightning fast and it should
make it easy to generalise/extend ..?

> - The FileUtil module seems a bit rough around the edges,

Perhaps -- but I think the interface is the primary
concern .. the implementation can always be improved later.

> ... which brings up another thing which ExtLib is missing:
> A test suite (and some mechanism for executing it).

I raise that issue before -- as I recall, Nicolas correctly
said that's it is a *big* job.

For Felix, I merge the tests and tutorial.. an added incentive.
Learn how to use Extlib by studying the test cases.. 

But it is a big job .. more is involved that just writing
the test case (a test harness is needed too ..)

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