[ocaml-platform] [ocaml-infra] status of ocaml-doc

Ashish Agarwal agarwal1975 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 19:41:32 BST 2014


Great, thanks. It'll be nice to have this.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:

> Do note that the 'opam-doc' package in OPAM does work at the moment.
>
> It's just not integrated into the compiler, but it does do enough to
> compile up the Core docs at Jane Street or the mirage.github.io docs.
> We're unlikely to do any bugfixes to that though, as the effort is
> going into the new version that Leo describes below.
>
> -anil
>
> On 20 Jun 2014, at 17:05, Leo White <lpw25 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ashish,
> >
> > I will be rewriting the opam-doc tool over the summer as part of work
> > towards the OCaml platform. Should hopefully have something usable by
> > September.
> >
> > The `bin-doc` parts of the tool (which previously parsed documentation
> > comments and stored them in ".cmd" files) have already been rewritten as
> > a compiler patch to parse comments and store them in ".cmt" files as
> > special attributes (on github as pr #51). Unfortunately this patch did
> > not get into 4.02 as there were some concern over parts of it. I hope to
> > address these concerns over the summer as well.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Leo
> >
> > Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Does anyone know the status of opam-doc. Are we closer to having nice
> documentation easily generated for all of our
> >> installed libraries?
> >>
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