CVS: sml-dist HISTORY,1.462,1.463

Update of /cvsroot/smlnj/sml-dist
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv17299

Modified Files:
	HISTORY 
Log Message:
improved the way certain libraries are bound into the compiler

Index: HISTORY
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RCS file: /cvsroot/smlnj/sml-dist/HISTORY,v
retrieving revision 1.462
retrieving revision 1.463
diff -C2 -d -r1.462 -r1.463
*** HISTORY	7 Nov 2005 23:03:16 -0000	1.462
--- HISTORY	15 Nov 2005 22:38:48 -0000	1.463
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*** 14,17 ****
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+ Name: Matthias Blume (http://www.tti-c.org/blume/)
+ Date: 2005/11/15 16:35:00 CST
+ Tag: blume-22051115-libraries
+ Description:
+ 
+ This change affects the way the following libraries are tied into
+ the system:
+ 
+    $/basis.cm
+    $/smlnj-lib.cm
+    $/pp-lib.cm
+    $/controls-lib.cm
+    $/html-lib.cm
+    $/ml-yacc-lib.cm
+ 
+ These libraries are now internally (as seen from the source code
+ of the implementation itself) known by the following names:
+ 
+    $smlnj/basis/basis.cm
+    $smlnj/smlnj-lib/smlnj-lib.cm
+    $smlnj/smlnj-lib/pp-lib.cm
+    $smlnj/smlnj-lib/controls-lib.cm
+    $smlnj/smlnj-lib/html-lib.cm
+    $smlnj/ml-yacc/ml-yacc-lib.cm
+ 
+ This makes it possible to work with code that requires different
+ versions of these libraries, and which refers to these libraries using
+ their "default" names (i.e., the first set of names above).  In other
+ words, one can un-define or re-define those default names without
+ compromising the proper functioning of the compiler itself.
+ 
+ A similar procedure had already been performed for several of the
+ MLRISC libraries that are linked into the compiler.  I did some
+ cleanup on this code.
+ 
+ A new file in the config directory (named extrapathconfig) is
+ responsible for setting up path anchors that the compiler itself does
+ not need, but that are typically required by user code.
+ 
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Name: Matthias Blume
  Date: 2005/11/07 17:05:00 CST



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