From: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Opam use for teaching lab infrastructure
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:52:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523AC949.8020408@riken.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F93DEE93-3068-4EC7-BFAB-6646D8D4CFE3@telecom-bretagne.eu>
On 09/19/2013 06:38 PM, Dagnat Fabien wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm teaching (basic) functional programming and (simple) compilation in
> ocaml (to master students). Currently, I ask the system administrators
> to install a basic ocaml package. I'm thinking on switching to opam to
> make it easier for students to experiment various libraries.
>
> Does anyone has used opam for labs with student? I would be glad to hear
> any report on this mainly on the following points:
> - Is opam really usable when you keep changing of machine?
> - Having a .opam for all student accounts seem interesting so that they
> can freely experiment without interfering with others but has the cost
> of duplicating lot of common files. Any thoughts?
> - What is the usual size of an .opam directory? Mine is 1G but I don't
> know if it's usual.
Mine is 2.8G, mostly due to several compiler switches installed, I guess.
> - What kind of ocaml libs do you introduce to the students? I was
> thinking of utop, ounit, core / batteries, menhir.
Maybe Parmap to have fun on multi-core computers.
Also, I would recommend dolog (it's in OPAM of course) for a simple
logger. ;)
> Thanks in advance
> Fabien
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-19 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 9:38 Dagnat Fabien
2013-09-19 9:52 ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2013-09-19 10:50 ` Roberto Di Cosmo
2013-09-20 9:40 ` David MENTRE
2013-09-20 9:50 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-09-20 12:12 ` David MENTRE
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