[ocaml-platform] An alternative proposal for namespaces

[Alain Frisch]

On 3/20/2013 10:15 PM, Leo White wrote:
> As I have made clear, the build system shouldn't give ocamldep directories, it
> should generate a search path file to represent the eventual contents of
> those directories and give that file to ocamldep.

It seems we converge.   You claim that build system should be 
responsible for generating search path files before calling ocamldep 
(and thus the compilers).  So do you agree that ocamldep does not need 
to support directories anymore?  (except for backward compatibility of 
projects not using namespaces)  It seems that the "simple namespace" 
convention can be implemented entirely in the build systems, outside the 
core toolchain (compilers, ocamldep).  Fine, people can decide to use 
this convention, or another one, or write their search path files 
manually.  So let's keep this simple namespace convention outside the 
proposal.  Do you agree?


Alain