0005869: ocamlbuild should expose common interface as a library

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0005869

OCaml

OCamlbuild (the tool)

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2013-01-01 16:35

2013-01-02 01:09

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meyer

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meyer

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normal

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feature

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have not tried

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4.01.0+dev

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0005869: ocamlbuild should expose common interface as a library

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Currently ocamlbuild relies on a file system, and is purely a command line tool.

Some tools like Oasis rely on generating a lot of intermediate files for ocamlbuild -- that could be avoided all together if the client tool just called ocamlbuild to give it the same information as in _tags, mllib, mlpack etc. and myocamlbuild plugins.

The client thus would behave like an interpreter not a compiler anymore. This would make the building process less fragile and eliminate many errors originating from file system state.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-01-01 16:35	meyer	New Issue
2013-01-01 16:35	meyer	Status	new => assigned
2013-01-01 16:35	meyer	Assigned To	=> meyer

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