Re: [MirageOS-devel] [ANN] IPv6 on Mirage!

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Nov 2014, at 07:13, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Then when you want to use foo in your project:
> 
>     $ opam install foo-mirage
> 
> In your "config.ml":
> 
>     open Mirage (* to load the basic combinators *)
>     open Foo_mirage (* to load the combinators for foo *)
>     let main = foreign "Make" (foo @-> job)

I'm not a fan of having to open Foo_mirage to use it in the configuration file. 
 That means that you need keep track of the library dependencies when writing 
configuration files, which the current system does a wonderful job of getting 
rid of.

>>>> - We will brainstorm in the next mirage call and in Cambridge about the 
>>>> longer term solution of configuration modularity (which will require some 
>>>> work to get right, and so won't happen in the very short term).  ThomasG 
>>>> will lead this one and take the final decision since the existing 
>>>> configuration system is his faul^H^H creation and he understands it best.
> 
> That "wonderful" system has been build in a couple of days, under the 
> Cambridge snow, so I have some excuses :p

It's certainly a heaven send compared to the old systems we had for configuring 
Mirage.  The bad old days of using `opam switch` for different backends is why 
I'm fervently hoping that issues like the AMD64 redzone never come in to bite 
us...

-anil


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