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Which version(s) of OCamlbuild is the manual intended to cover?

Open zhenya1007 opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

I would like to know which version(s) of OCamlbuild the copy of the OCamlbuild manual I am reading is intended to cover. Compare this with GNU Make manual (and other GNU manuals), for example:

This is Edition 0.74, last updated 21 May 2016, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNU make version 4.2.

Clear and simple. Wouldn't it be nice if the OCamlbuild manual included similar text?

zhenya1007 avatar Nov 18 '16 18:11 zhenya1007

It would certainly be nice, but I haven't been able to do it yet. If someone was willing to lend a hand by looking at the Changelog and marking new features with the version that introduced them, that could be very helpful.

Note that most of the manual, in particular the general principles about how ocamlbuild work, should work on all versions. The specific tags that are built-in and follow the OCaml compiler feature set are what changes most between versions.

I think the oldest version that we should consider is 4.01 (it is what Debian stable uses).

gasche avatar Nov 18 '16 23:11 gasche