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We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gi...

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! The opam team has great pleasure in announcing opam 2.1.0~rc2! The focus since beta4 has been preparing for a world with more than one released version of opam (i.e. 2.0.x and 2.1.x). The release candidate extends CLI versioning further and, under the ho...

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.2. As sandbox scripts have been updated, don't forget to run opam init --reinit -ni to update yours. This new version contains mainly backported fixes: Doc: update man page add message for deprecated options reinsert removed ones to print a deprecat...

A few days ago, we released opam 2.0.0~rc4, and explained that this final release candidate was expected be promoted to 2.0.0, in sync with an upgrade to the opam package repository. So here are the details about this! If you are an opam user, and don't maintain opam packages You are encouraged to u...

We are pleased to announce a preview release for opam 2.0, with over 700 patches since 1.2.2. Version 2.0~alpha4 has just been released, and is ready to be more widely tested. This version brings many new features and changes, the most notable one being that OCaml compiler packages are no longer spe...

You will need OCaml 3.11.2 installed on a i686 linux computer. The archive contains: libcamlrun-linux-i686.a ocamlrun-linux-i686 Makefile README The Makefile has two targets: sudo make install will save /usr/bin/ocamlrun and /usr/lib/ocaml/libcamlrun.a in the current directory and replace them with ...