From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF7D97EE49 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:52:22 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of berenger@riken.jp) identity=pra; client-ip=134.160.33.176; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="berenger@riken.jp"; x-sender="berenger@riken.jp"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of berenger@riken.jp designates 134.160.33.176 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=134.160.33.176; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="berenger@riken.jp"; x-sender="berenger@riken.jp"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of postmaster@postman.riken.jp designates 134.160.33.176 as permitted sender) identity=helo; client-ip=134.160.33.176; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="berenger@riken.jp"; x-sender="postmaster@postman.riken.jp"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnYBAOjHOlKGoCGwnGdsb2JhbABbgz/Bf4E4DgEBAQEBCAsJCRQogiUBAQQBDCYBBTAQBgsLGAkWDwkDAgECAUUTCAEBh3kGDLl+jhiBVhaECAOJNo5GhjGOdw X-IPAS-Result: AnYBAOjHOlKGoCGwnGdsb2JhbABbgz/Bf4E4DgEBAQEBCAsJCRQogiUBAQQBDCYBBTAQBgsLGAkWDwkDAgECAUUTCAEBh3kGDLl+jhiBVhaECAOJNo5GhjGOdw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,936,1371074400"; d="scan'208";a="27382078" Received: from postman4.riken.jp (HELO postman.riken.jp) ([134.160.33.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 19 Sep 2013 11:52:21 +0200 Received: from postman.riken.jp (postman4.riken.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postman.riken.jp (Postfix) with SMTP id 3303C8280B7 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:52:17 +0900 (JST) Received: from [172.27.98.103] (rikad98.riken.jp [134.160.214.98]) by postman.riken.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1CEB87F803F for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:52:16 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <523AC949.8020408@riken.jp> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:52:09 +0900 From: Francois Berenger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-PMX-Version: 6.0.0.2142326, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.9.19.94047 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Opam use for teaching lab infrastructure 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 > > Télécom Bretagne > *Fabien DAGNAT* > Maître de conférences au département informatique > Responsable de la filière Systèmes Logiciels et Réseaux > Tél. : (0 | 33) 2 29 00 14 09 > Technopôle Brest-Iroise, CS 83818 > 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France > Site web Télécom Bretagne Blog Télécom > Bretagne > Une école de l'Institut Mines-Télécom > >