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Day10: local development builds

My typical OCaml development workflow starts with git clone ..., then opam switch create . 5.4.1 --deps-only followed by dune build. This creates a local _opam directory containing the compiler and all dependencies. It works well, but the _opam directories add up, and the build takes time.

17 Apr 2026

Marc Elvers

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OCI image export from day10

mtelvers/day10 can now export build results as multi-layer OCI images, where each opam package becomes its own layer.

09 Apr 2026

Marc Elvers

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