[Omake] ocamldep-omake, ocamldep -modules and ocamlfind revisited.

[Jason Hickey]

On Aug 20, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> 1) When the native ocamldep does not understand -modules, but  
> ocamldep-omake is available, then set the  
> OCAMLDEP_MODULES_AVAILABLE to $`(not $(USE_OCAMLFIND))
>
> In other words, when the user wants ocamlfind, then give up on  
> using the custom ocamldep instead of giving up on using the ocamlfind.
>
> 2) Give up on the ocamldep-omake completely, remove it from the  
> OMake distribution and have the OCAMLDEP_MODULES functionality  
> require OCaml 3.10
>
> The latter choice would probably be a lot more robust, while the  
> former one would be more pleasant for the OCaml 3.09 users who do  
> not care about ocamlfind.

I think either option is fine.  Probably #2 is better because  
ocamldep-omake is unmaintained, so it will be dying a slow death anyway.

Jason

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