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The "findlib" software provides a scheme to manage reusable software
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components in the form of libraries, and includes tools that support
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this scheme. A library installed as a findlib component is also called
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a package. The point is that the findlib scheme allows it to store
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metainformation about the library, especially how it can be used in
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programs. The packages are kept in the filesystem hierarchy, but the
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directory structure is defined by findlib, and there is no way to
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deviate from this standard. The library contains functions to look the
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directory up that stores a package, to query metainformation about a
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package, and to retrieve dependency information about multiple packages.
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There is also a tool that allows the user to enter queries on the
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command-line. In order to simplify compilation and linkage, there are
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new frontends of the various OCaml compilers that can directly deal
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with packages.
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