Between spin , drom , and esy , there are a lot of ways to create and manage OCaml projects (not to mention plain dune+opam). This has made it hard for me to get up and running on OCaml projects and understand best practices. Even among the most popular libraries, there seems to be a lot of variety in …

direnv is required to use to the correct switch when entering a directory (you could do it manually but I’d always forget). Alternatively you could use a project local switch ( I don’t cause of habit and I’d want to centralise my switches under ~/.opam). There is work on making the compiler relocata…

[image] lambda_foo: direnv is required to use to the correct switch when entering a directory (you could do it manually but I’d always forget). Alternatively you could use a project local switch ( I don’t cause of habit and I’d want to centralise my switches under ~/.opam ). Opam has a built-…

[image] CraigFe: Opam has a built-in mechanism for this in the form of opam switch link Unless I am misunderstanding, this is not a replacement for direnv. For example, direnv modifies the PATH environment variable on the fly according to the current directory (e.g., so that it points to the …

Opam ships with shell hooks for configuring the shell environment / completions (set up by opam init), and these are already sensitive to whichever switch is considered “active” in the current working directory (by traversing upwards looking for _opam files, or looking at OPAMSWITCH). opam switch li…

[image] CraigFe: Opam ships with shell hooks for configuring the shell environment / completions (set up by opam init ) I knew about those files, but your comment prompted me to have a deeper look at them. My .opam/opam-init directory correctly contains init.sh, complete.sh, and variables.sh.…

[image] rgrinberg: [opam] is needlessly complex because it tried to be a general purpose package manager… Careful with that axe, Eugene. Some of us don’t see that as “needless” and rather like opam because it tries (and succeeds) at being a general purpose application package manager, not jus…

Thinking about this some more, I’d like to offer what I hope the compiler team will view as constructive criticism— an observation of a way the compiler tools work today that I believe can be improved— that might help simplify what the larger community sees as an undesirable complexity. The current…

Are you aware of this proposal? RFCs/ocamlib.md at master · ocaml/RFCs · GitHub I believe it has been accepted already and is currently being implemented. Rudi.

[image] rgrinberg: Are you aware of this proposal? I am now. Yes, something like that is what I’m talking about. But apparently the work has stopped Sadface.

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Ecosystem

yawaramin October 24, 2021, 3:44am 51

But apparently the work has stopped: Opam packages: be honest with your dependencies - #16 by dbuenzli

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