Hi,

Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> Excerpts from hmf's message of Wed Nov 21 15:41:12 +0100 2007:
>> Hello,
> Hello,
> 
>> I am attempting to use the document generation option provided by
>> ocamlbuild. The manual states that ocamlbuild will "collect all the
>> documentation for the interfaces (which will be built if necessary").
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1. How can I change this so that both *.ml and *.mli file are be used?
> 
> If  I well remember in OCaml-3.10.0 only mli files are took in account. 

Yes, my tests shows this.

> In the CVS version ml files are used when no mli can be built.
> 

What do you mean "can't be built"? I assume you can always generate a
*.mli given *.ml, correct? Are you referring to other types of sources
such as *.mly?

Can the behaviour be changed? If I am not mistaken ocamldoc can merge
*.ml and *.mli files so I think it may be easy enough to allow this.

>> 2. Must I compile the files prior to invoking "ocamlbuild
>> all.docdir/index.html" at any point?
> 
> No it must works nicely without any pre-compilation.
> 

Ok.

>> On a different issue, the manual refers to "packing subdirectories
>> into modules"...
>>
>> 1. Are we talking about indicating a path here, for example:
>>
>> cat all.odocl
>> src/mod/Mod
>>
>> So that Mod is documented?
> 
> No it's not related.
> 
> Packing  subdirectories  is  about  using  -pack  to nest modules into one big
> module.  The  "subdirectories"  here  is perhaps misleading but that's because
> most  of  the  time  packages are used to reflect the directory hierarchy into
> modules.
> 

Ok. Understood.

Thank you for such prompt replies.


Regards,
Hugo F.