Re: [Caml-list] how do you develop multiple dependent projects simultaneously?

[David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>]

Martin DeMello wrote:
> I have a project that depends on two other libraries, both pinned to
> local git repos in opam. However I find it quite annoying to have to
> run opam update && opam install every time I make a change in the
> libraries, especially when I'm making small changes to all three
> projects at the same time. Is there any smoother workflow that people
> use?

This is something jbuilder handles really easily, as long as your dependent libraries also use jbuilder - all you have to do is checkout the dependent libraries in subdirectories of your project and jbuilder will build and use them instead of the opam packages. Once you're done working on the libraries, you do whatever's necessary to push your changes, update your opam package/pin and then delete the library's sub-directory and on your next build, jbuilder will automatically return to using the opam package.


David