Eric Cooper a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:19:30PM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> 
>>From: Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
>>
>>>Let say I want two distribute two(or more) implementations of a library
>>>with the .mli for all ...
>>>
>>>Is there a way to choose the implementation at link time ?
>>>[...]
>>
>>Directories seem a possible solution.
>>[...] 
>>An alternative to distinct directories is to create libraries (.cma/.cmxa).
> 
> 
> And yet another is to use symbolic links, for example
>     a.ml -> a_optimized_impl.ml
> or
>     a.ml -> a_reference_impl.ml
> 

This is not reasonable for a library. You can not ask the user to
change symbolic link in /usr/lib/ocaml ...

> (Note that when using "make", you have to be careful about stale
> object files after switching the symlink.  It's a good idea to do a
> "make clean" at the same time.)
> 

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