On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:12, Alessandro Baretta wrote:

> I had not thought about this... Actually, it is not a bad idea, at  
> least, in my build system. Ideally, the build system would have to  
> have a way of mangling the library namespace by packaging up  
> findlib-managed libraries in a single package. Then, it would have  
> to isse the desired -open directives to an ad-hoc camlp4 syntax  
> extension. It's a bit of a hack, but it could work. I wonder if it  
> is general enough a solution to become mainstream, though.

It doesn't have to be a camlp4 extension, you could implement Alain's  
trick
with a preprocessor written in Bourne shell.  But it doesn't work  
when the
program is already compiled with -pp, since the OCaml compiler doesn't
allow for a pipeline of preprocessors.

-- Damien