Re: opam and myocamlbuild.ml files

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good question.  We could move to only generating the setup.ml for stable 
releases, and
not for the working copy.  The diff spam is really irritating when bug 
bisecting...

-anil

On 17 Jul 2012, at 10:03, Richard Mortier wrote:

> minor question/nit-
> 
> we have myocamlbuild.ml files in the repos; but i notice with (e.g.) 
> ocaml-dns that this may end up creating a lot of spurious commits due to 
> diffs like
> 
> -# 56 
> "/Users/avsm/.opam/system/build/oasis.0.3.0/src/plugins/ocamlbuild/MyOCamlbuildBase.ml"
> +# 56 
> "/Users/mort/.opam/mir-uxd/build/oasis.0.3.0/src/plugins/ocamlbuild/MyOCamlbuildBase.ml"
> 
> now that oasis is easy to install via opam, should we by default ignore oasis 
> generated files?  (of which myocamlbuild.ml is one isn't it?)
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> R.
> 
> 
> 
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