I just played with it on my ats-utils package. I published it
here, https://www.npmjs.com/package/ats-utils so that others can try out.
It is under MIT license.
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 2:45:09 PM UTC-5, gmhwxi wrote:
>
>
>
> ######
> #
> # For the moment, I am using ats-lang-users for ats-lang-devel.
> #
> ######
>
> For people interested in this, please feel free to post your comments.
>
> In the near future, I hope to set up a packaging system for ATS. It is
> long overdue.
>
> I looked around and tried npm (JS) and composer (PHP). For the moment,
> I plan to use npm (but this choice should have minimal impact, if at all,
> on
> the support for packaging system in ATS).
>
> One can say that being explicit is a theme in the design of ATS. There is
> no exception this time. A environment variable PATSHOMERELOCS is to
> be introduced (which may or may not replace the variable PATSHOMERELOC
> that is currently in use).
>
> PATSHOMERELOCS is essentially a collection of paths separation by colon (:)
> (or other characters).
>
> Say that you have used npm to install a package FOO globally. Then you may
> have
>
> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/
> FOO
>
> on your system.
>
> Please make sure that /usr/local/lib/node_modules is one of the paths in
> PATSHOMERELOCS.
>
> You may use FOO in your code in the following ways:
>
> #include "${PATSHOMERELOCS}/FOO/foo.hats"
> #staload "${PATSHOMERELOCS}/FOO/foo.sats"
> #staload _ = "${PATSHOMELOCS}/FOO/foo.hats"
>
> By mentioning PATSHOMERELOCS in a loading path is what I refer to as being
> explicit.
>
> This should address the issue of compilation to C involving external
> packages. Obviously, we also
> need to compile the generated C code into object files. This latter issue
> can be addressed by making
> use of pkg-config properly. We just need some experiments and then form
> certain guidelines for doing it.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
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