Linux distro of choice for OCaml deployment and development

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@basus

I’ve been using Arch Linux as my Linux distribution of choice for the last few years, but over the last few months, I’ve been noticing a more-than-negligible number of issues with the OCaml ecosystem, especially when it comes to packages that need to interact with non-OCaml libraries. Is there a preferred (Linux or BSD) operating system or environment that people use? The latest Ubuntu LTS is probably the most obvious choice.

These are the Linux distributions tested in OPAM CI:

Containers

Arch isn’t on there, so the depexts are probably very bitrotted in opam. Two equally good courses of action are:

• contribute support for your favourite distro (e.g. Arch) to GitHub - ocurrent/ocaml-dockerfile: OCaml interface for creating Dockerfiles so that it can get on the supported list
• switch to one of the supported distros on the list for an immediate boost in opam build quality

I’d really like to see more non-mainstream distros in our CI list, so this is a valuable area for new contributors.