[Omake] ocaml syntax omake?

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 18.08.2009 12:17, Craig Falls wrote:

> I'm not sure, but I seem to remember
> hearing of a version of OMake that was just the compilation part without
> the language so that one would use OCaml to write the make files.  Does
> such a thing exist, or was there discussion of such a possibility? 

Hi Craig,

What you've probably heard about is support for "program" syntax for
OMakefiles. It's still the same OMake language (not OCaml), but uses a
more "normal" programming language syntax instead of the Make-style one.
 In the program syntax all the constants have to be explicitly quoted,
while the variable references and function calls no longer have to use
the $(...) syntax. E.g.

A = $(addsuffix .foo, $(FILES))

becomes

A = addsuffix($".foo", FILES)

This is currently an experimental feature. It's present on the latest
0.9.8.x branch SVN, but is not yet present in any released version.

Aleksey