If anyone would like to chime in and say that OCaml build and packaging
system is not that complicated, I would recommend first looking at
https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#package-management . IMHO we need to
seriously look at consolidating efforts around OPAM for package management,
packaging, building, testing and running. All the serious language-specific
package managers do it, it's a proven strategy and it simplifies life for
the developer.

This could be a typical workflow:

cd some-ocaml-proj
opam install # Switches compiler if necessary and installs and locally
caches package dependencies
opam build
opam run # Automatically builds if necessary
opam test # Ditto
opam package # Ditto; --upload option can immediately upload to opam
opam doc # Builds documentation with ocamldoc or whatever
opam login -u user -p password

Regards,

Yawar

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 5:15 AM Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> a while ago it looked like there were not enough build- and
> installation-tools
> for OCaml. I remember some discussions about that.
>
> Now it seems to me that there are a lot of them.
> So, developers can pick the one they know about.
>
> For all these tools there might be good reasons to use them, and those
> developers who looked at these tools and choose them for their projects,
> will
> know them well enough.
>
> The situation differs, if one wants to package the written software,
> and one needs to know many of those tools, just to compile the stuff.
> So, when one just wants to compile and install some software,
> just for that, it would take much effort to learn the different
> build-tools.
>
> So, packaging has become more complicated, even though for the developers
> these tools may save time.
>
> It would be nice if people who used one of the many new building tools
> could provide a Makefile that allows just to type
> "make" and "make install", instead of expecting everyone who wants to
> compile
> the software to first learn just-another-build-tool.
>
> Also it would be good, to mention early, which installation tools
> (make-dependencies)
> are in use, and too mention needed packages (opam or others) to just build
> the stuff.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>   Oliver Bandel
>
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