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-ABOUT-FINDLIB - Package manager for O'Caml
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-Abstract
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-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.
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-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.
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-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.
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-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.
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-Where to get findlib
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-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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