Re: [Sml-implementers] SML IDE as language promotion

[Matthew F. <fl...@cs...>]

> I agree about the importance of libraries.  I think that there are two
> issues that as a community we need to solve before we can hope to
> have the same level of library support that Python and its ilk have.
> 
>    1) a portable way to specify build scripts. When I write a library for
>      SML/NJ, I use CM, but there is no easy way to port my library to
>      MLton, or Moscow ML, or the MLKit, or ...   Matthias Blume proposed
>      a solution to this problem on this mailing list a year or two ago, but
>      there was little or no response from other implementations.

One can transform a SML/NJ CM project into a MLton MLB project using the 
cm2mlb tool, described at the bottom of:
   http://mlton.org/CompilationManager
This tool uses the SML/NJ $/pgraph.cm library internally.

But, John is right, the tool should really be pgd2mlb and the 
corresponding mlb2pgd tool should be written as well.