js_of_ocaml support.

[dbuenzli]

It would be nice to have support for js_of_ocaml. Basically rules to generates .js from .cmos. Documentation of the tool.

[dbuenzli]

Also see the section about linking.

[samoht]

Where do you expect .js to be installed ?

[dbuenzli]

Good question... maybe just leave it in the build dir. E.g. for testing, for now, with ocamlbuild I just symlink the right directory in _build so that my local webserver can pick them up.

Does assemblage support some kind of build dir lookup command ? This could be used by ad-hoc deployment scripts.

In any case it should also possible to simply install .js files in lib directories, as those may be needed for bindings. Beyond that I don't know if js_of_ocaml has some notion of separate compilation so that you can distribute libraries as separate js files (there is a -noruntime option but I don't know if you can then link using a sequence of <script> tags on a page).

@hhugo any thoughts ?

[dbuenzli]

In any case I think you need hooks in the system in order to have control over what gets installed where. A use case could be an application that installs e.g. binaries to process data or an scgi daemon and static support file for web clients (.html, .css and js_of_ocaml compiled .js files), I guess that in the case of an OS package you'd put these files in share.

[samoht]

Keeping the issue open as the JS files are now produced but they are not installed (yet).

[dbuenzli]

We should really try to get some feedback from the js_of_ocaml folks on that one.

[samoht]

closing as superseded by #52