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Here are two well known "classic" functions over polymorphic lists. map f l computes a ne...
This blog will cover yet another aspect of the improvements opam 2.0 has over opam 1.2. I may be a little more technical than previous issues, as it covers a feature directed specifically at packagers and repository maintainers, and regarding the package definition format. Specifying dependencies in...
There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from usingshell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader tob...
PPX Preprocessor extensions for code generation "A Guide to Extension Points in OCaml"[1] provides a great "quic...
After the opam build feature was announced followed a lot of discussions, mainly having to do with its interface, and misleading name. The base features it offered, though, were still widely asked for: a way to work directly with the project in the current directory, assuming it contains definitions...
Update: I’m excited to say that we’ve now hired a (great!) technicalwriter, so the position is closed.
Among the areas we wanted to improve on for opam 2.0 was the handling of switches. In opam 1.2, they are simply accessed by a name (the OCaml version by default), and are always stored into ~/.opam/<name>. This is fine, but can get a bit cumbersome when many switches are in presence, as there is no ...
We have a new tech talk coming up onMay 17th, from our very own Dominick LoBraico. This one is about how torepresent configurations with programs. In some se...
