Re: [MirageOS-devel] pretty charts from OCaml and js_of_ocaml

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Jun 2015, at 16:44, Daniel BÃnzli <daniel.buenzli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le vendredi, 19 juin 2015 Ã 16:06, Anil Madhavapeddy a Ãcrit :
>> The notebook (or perhaps toploop_js to be more specific?) predicate
>> does seem like the right way to do things, despite the OASIS tooling
>> issue.  
> 
> Actually I prefer the addition of a package PKG.notebook. The less we put in 
> META files the happier I am.  
> 
> I have now personally settelled on the following scheme for toploops in my 
> packages: requiring a package should only load the package and never have any 
> other side effect.  
> 
> If you want to have toploop support for the package you provide a PKG.top 
> package that requires PKG and does its toplevel business. This seems to 
> better match user expectations (see [1] for a discussion) and it could end up 
> being annoying that you are not able to #require a package without having its 
> side effect on the toplevel. Examples are if packages end up installing 
> conflicting printers, or if a package automatically opens it's namespace like 
> gg does and you dont' want that.  
> 
> See for example the current toploop support for gg [2] which doesn't use any 
> special predicate in the meta file.

That makes sense to me.  I'm just not sure about the 'notebook' name.  Would 
'top_js' or something similar be more familiar given the existing set of names?

-anil
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