[Caml-list] releasing and publishing an OCaml program

[David CHEMOUIL <David.Chemouil@onera.fr>]

Hi,

I am looking for a self-contained, to the point, documentation or 
tutorial detailing steps, or even commands and scripts to run in order 
to release and publish an OCaml-programmed piece of software.

I guess it partly depends on one's way to develop and organize his or 
her code base. Still I also guess there are common steps followed by a 
fair amount of people.

As far as we are concerned for our project, we rely on OCaml code 
solely, plus Opam-installed tools (e.g. Menhir) and libraries; plus 
Oasis and Ocamlbuild. Our development is hosted on a Git repo.

So common tasks we'd like to automate are quite simple: adding the 
commit number and/or a build number in the OCaml source code (e.g. to 
display it when running the program), to display a git tag corresponding 
perhaps to a human-readable version number, publishing the progam on 
Opam, maybe even publishing a compiled version as a Debian package... As 
far as possible we'd like to avoid reinventing the wheel as well as 
duplicating information already present in a file (e.g. the _oasis file 
contains some data).

After some web searching, I was able to find real projects as examples 
as well as some partial (good) tutorials but it would be nice if there 
was a single documentation or bunch of scripts to address these rather 
common requirements.

Best

dc

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