I think there has been a communication gap here, so let me expand: opam is the _intended_ main tool for development of OCaml programs and the related distribution of the OCaml compiler. You are talking about end users consuming OCaml programs, I am talking about developers making them, two different use cases.

Yawar

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:21 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:19:34PM -0500, Yawar Amin wrote:
> Realistically, today, system ocaml compiler + make is a corner case in
> OCaml development/distribution and shouldn't take precedence over a
> standardized developer workflow with opam.

Actual figures, otherwise I'll have to assume you're talking nonsense.
The system OCaml compiler is by far the way we prefer users to consume
OCaml and programs built by OCaml on Fedora, probably on Debian too.

Rich.

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Richard Jones