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-******************************************************************************
-ABOUT-FINDLIB - Package manager for O'Caml
-******************************************************************************
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-
-==============================================================================
-Abstract
-==============================================================================
-
-The findlib library provides a scheme to manage reusable software components 
-(packages), and includes tools that support this scheme. Packages are 
-collections of OCaml modules for which metainformation can be stored. The 
-packages are kept in the filesystem hierarchy, but with strict directory 
-structure. The library contains functions to look the directory up that stores 
-a package, to query metainformation about a package, and to retrieve dependency 
-information about multiple packages. There is also a tool that allows the user 
-to enter queries on the command-line. In order to simplify compilation and 
-linkage, there are new frontends of the various OCaml compilers that can 
-directly deal with packages. 
-
-Together with the packages metainformation is stored. This includes a version 
-string, the archives the package consists of, and additional linker options. 
-Packages can also be dependent on other packages. There is a query which finds 
-out all predecessors of a list of packages and sorts them topologically. The 
-new compiler frontends do this implicitly. 
-
-Metainformation can be conditional, i.e. depend on a set of predicates. This is 
-mainly used to be able to react on certain properties of the environment, such 
-as if the bytecode or the native compiler is invoked, if the application is 
-multi-threaded, and a few more. If the new compiler frontends are used, most 
-predicates are found out automatically. 
-
-There is special support for scripts. A new directive, "#require", loads 
-packages into scripts. Of course, this works only with newly created toploops 
-which include the findlib library. 
-
-==============================================================================
-Where to get findlib
-==============================================================================
-
-The manual of findlib is available online [1]. You can download findlib here 
-[2]. 
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-[1]   see http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/findlib/
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-[2]   see http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/findlib-0.3.1.tar.gz
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