When using ppx_blob, the compilation chain has to know the included file is now a dependency of the file that includes it (so that the including file gets recompiled when the included file is modified). Is there another means than tagging dependencies manually?

Would you have time to make a new release? I'm pinned to the latest (as of this writing) master commit locally for now.

If we change (lang dune 1.0) to (lang dune 3.0) (https://github.com/johnwhitington/ppx_blob/blob/0.7.2/dune-project#L1
the build will failed with following error.

$ make all
dune build @install @example
File "example/quine.ml", line 1, characters 13-31:
1 | print_string [%blob "quine.ml"]
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Error: [%blob] could not find or load file quine.ml

I found that Ocaml_common.Location.absolute_path path no longer return a real path but prefix the argument with /workspace_root/.
Since there is no /workspace_root/example/quine.ml, a Not_found is thrown.

The latest published version still depends on jbuilder. Can you publish a new version that uses dune? Thanks.

Due to usage of Const_string, which in 4.03 is replaced by Pconst_string (and perhaps other minor differences).

I would submit a PR, but do you prefer:

• depending on ppx_tools, which has an Ast_convenience module (in part for) dealing with this sort of thing, or
• maintaining two branches, one for 4.03+, and one for 4.02?

I'm not sure if this is an issue with ppx_blob or elsewhere. I get these warnings when compiling anything using ppx_blob using OCaml 4.02.1/4.02.2 and ppx_blob 0.1. Everything else is the latest from opam.

$ cat test.ml

let () =
  let s = [%blob "test.ml"] in
  print_endline s

$ ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -package ppx_blob test.native
+ ocamlfind ocamlc -c -package ppx_blob -o test.cmo test.ml
findlib: [WARNING] Interface topdirs.cmi occurs in several directories: /home/hcarty/.opam/4.02.2/lib/ocaml, /home/hcarty/.opam/4.02.2/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs
+ ocamlfind ocamlopt -c -package ppx_blob -o test.cmx test.ml
findlib: [WARNING] Interface topdirs.cmi occurs in several directories: /home/hcarty/.opam/4.02.2/lib/ocaml, /home/hcarty/.opam/4.02.2/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs
+ ocamlfind ocamlopt -linkpkg -package ppx_blob test.cmx -o test.native
findlib: [WARNING] Interface topdirs.cmi occurs in several directories: /home/hcarty/.opam/4.02.2/lib/ocaml, /home/hcarty/.opam/4.02.2/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs
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