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Description
Desired Behavior
Have builtin rules for .messages files produced by menhir (cf menhir's manual ). This would include:
- generating a fresh
.messagesfile for a new grammar / menhir parser - updating an existing
.messagesfile when the grammar / menhir parser changes - compiling the
.messagesfile into an.mlfile to make it available in the rest of the project
Note that given that .messages files contain hand-written messages, they should be part of the source tree, hence the first two rules above (generating fresh .messages files and updating them) would need to promote the generated file (potentially overwriting the current one in the case of an update). However, the .ml file generated from the .messages file needn't be promoted.
Apologies if it already exists, but I couldn't find any reference to it neither in the docs (both for stable and latest), nor in the code (after a search for messages, nothing seemed related to menhir).
Example
I already have implemented manual rules for this in one of my projects, see https://github.com/Gbury/dolmen/blob/master/src/languages/smtlib2/v2.6/dune .
These rules work however they are somewhat limited by the almost circular dependency of a .messages file on itself because of the updating process, so the example linked requires some user manual intervention to move a new or updated generated .messages file.