Re: [MirageOS-devel] experimental vchan iocamljs notebook

[Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 1 Jun 2015, at 11:08, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 1 Jun 2015, at 10:52, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Iâve been experimenting with building iocamljs notebooks to document Mirage 
>> libraries, in the style of Anilâs ocaml-dockerfile. Hereâs what Iâve got so 
>> far for vchan:
>> 
>> http://djs55.github.io/ocaml-vchan/#
>> 
>> Iâve had to add a bunch of missing JS stubs in js_of_ocaml, io-page, cstruct 
>> and vchan itself. Writing the stubs was quite easy but I donât know how to 
>> make the âbuildâ nice. I donât think oasis or ocamlfind know about js 
>> (correct me if Iâm wrong!) so Iâve had to manually add âmake js-installâ 
>> targets, and link lines â-jsopt +vchan/vchan.jsâ in various places which is 
>> very ugly.
> 
> That's really nice!  Do you think this is a good time to retire the use of 
> Camlp4 in our docs and use the ppx extension instead (or just manual binds)?

Good point â it would be strange to document the syntax that weâre trying not 
to use ;-)

Cheers,
Dave
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