ANN: jbuilder 1.0+beta12

rgrinberg · August 22, 2017, 3:05pm

On behalf of the jbuilder team, I’m happy to announce the release of the 12th beta of jbuilder. This release contains a little bit of everything: cool new features, bug fixes, and breaking changes. Please read the change log for details:

github.com

janestreet/jbuilder/blob/master/CHANGES.md#10beta12-18082017

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- Make jbuilder aware that `num` is an external package in OCaml >= 4.06.0
  (#358)

- `jbuilder exec` will now rebuild the executable before running it if
  necessary. This can be turned off by passing `--no-build` (#345)

- Fix `jbuilder utop` to work in any working directory (#339)

- Fix generation of META synopsis that contains double quotes (#337)

- Add `S .` to .merlin by default (#284)

- Improve `jbuilder exec` to make it possible to execute non public executables.
  `jbuilder exec path/bin` will execute `bin` inside default (or specified)
  context relative to `path`. `jbuilder exec /path` will execute `/path` as
  absolute path but with the context's environment set appropriately. Lastly,
  `jbuilder exec` will change the root as to which paths are relative using the

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Just to stress the most visible and known breaking change: the per_file option will no longer be accepted in the preprocess spec anymore.

We urge everyone to upgrade and report their problems with this release. We also monitor this forum for any usage questions, so don’t hesitate.

anon72795300 · August 25, 2017, 11:14am

Does this fix issues with Jbuilder and ppx_deriving? (See this example)

rgrinberg · August 25, 2017, 2:06pm

Orbifx ocaml@discoursemail.com writes:

Does this fix issues with Jbuilder and ppx_deriving? (See this example)

No, but the latest version of ppx_deriving (4.2) should fix this.

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