Blog
The OCaml Planet RSS
Articles and videos contributed by both experts, companies and passionate developers from the OCaml community. From in-depth technical articles, project highlights, community news, or insights into Open Source projects, the OCaml Planet RSS feed aggregator has something for everyone.
Source
Keyword
Year
Author
Want your Blog Posts or Videos to Show Here?
To contribute a blog post, or add your RSS feed, check out the Contributing Guide on GitHub.
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.
Coming from OCaml, the Rust programming language has many appealingfeatures. Rust’s system for tracking lifetime and ownership allowsusers to safely express...
This blog post looks back on some of the improvements in opam 2.0, and gives tips on the new workflows available. Package development environment management Opam 2.0 has been vastly improved to handle locally defined packages. Assuming you have a project ~/projects/foo, defining two packages foo-lib...
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 ...
UPDATE: after discussions following this post, this feature was abandoned with the interface presented below. See this post for the details and the new interface! The new opam 2.0 release, currently in beta, introduces several new features. This post gets into some detail on the new opam build comma...