X-Git-Url: http://matita.cs.unibo.it/gitweb/?p=helm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=helm%2FDEVEL%2Fpxp%2Fnetstring%2Fdoc%2FABOUT-FINDLIB;fp=helm%2FDEVEL%2Fpxp%2Fnetstring%2Fdoc%2FABOUT-FINDLIB;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=d942e278666c62f0cd415a9645c9a192d8f53e36;hb=869549224eef6278a48c16ae27dd786376082b38;hpb=89262281b6e83bd2321150f81f1a0583645eb0c8 diff --git a/helm/DEVEL/pxp/netstring/doc/ABOUT-FINDLIB b/helm/DEVEL/pxp/netstring/doc/ABOUT-FINDLIB deleted file mode 100644 index d942e2786..000000000 --- a/helm/DEVEL/pxp/netstring/doc/ABOUT-FINDLIB +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -****************************************************************************** -ABOUT-FINDLIB - Package manager for O'Caml -****************************************************************************** - - -============================================================================== -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]. - - --------------------------- - -[1] see http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/findlib/ - -[2] see http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/findlib-0.3.1.tar.gz - - -