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This is an unexhaustive and probably inaccurate list of items that need to be looked at or completed to make obuild even better. It is a good source of idea for anyone wanting to contribute.

Projects file

  • support if/then/else construct in project file.
  • add platform and architecture tests in project file: i.e. "if arch(x86) && ..."
  • utf8 in project file (maybe useful ?)

Better configuring

  • configure storing / build checking of system state (e.g. digest of libraries, pkg-config, etc)
  • cache meta in a friendlier format in dist/ after configure. speed up build.
  • arbitrary mechanism to poke at the platform and see what it supports. feeding the file autogeneration phase.
  • per project and per system configuration file (à la git)

Perf Improvement

  • use the transitive-edge-reduced dag for checking dependencies.
  • remove redundant mtime checks by using a invaliding mtime hashtbl caching mechanism.
  • improve change detection with a digest after mtime change.
  • improve compilation with .mli by moving the dag pointer of its parents to the compiled interface, not the compiled module.
  • ocamldep parallelization & multiples

Completeness

  • add install, and generate META
  • generate HTML documentation
  • generate cmxs
  • generate opam files (.install and .config)
  • benchs

Documenting

  • specification for the .obuild file format
  • mli files and code documentation

Misc

  • init: make it better
  • add globs for extras source
  • add automatic build-deps scanning/adding (see if possible and default to off probably)
  • librarify some part of obuild (Config parsing, meta parsing, opam generation, dependencies analysis, building analysis,...)
  • replace Digest by a faster (and more modern) digest module from cryptohash
  • better portability (windows)
  • add a way to refresh a .mli from scratch. for example obuild generate-mli src/ext.ml will (re-)write src/ext.mli
  • add a simple way to switch stdlib so that core can be used instead of the compiler stdlib for any target. (project field parsing done already)
  • have test (re-)build themselves when doing obuild test, instead of doing 'obuild build; obuild test'.
  • improve command line experience (cmdliner ?)