Re: [Caml-list] opam-installext (Was: Ocaml programmers interested in human-level AI)

[Kenneth Adam Miller <kennethadammiller@gmail.com>]

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Thanks!

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2015, at 18:44, Kenneth Adam Miller <kennethadammiller@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The only thing I think the ocaml environment is missing is a static
> check of the surrounding environment for the tools that will be used, for
> use in opam. That way, when stuff builds, you get told all the dependencies
> instead of doing iterations of finding each missing thing by hand.
>
> There's an OPAM plugin that the automated tests use that you may be
> interested in trying out.
>
> Install it with:
>
>     opam install opam-installext
>
> Then, if you have `sudo` configured correct you can just do:
>
>     opam installext <pkg1> <pkg2> ...
>
> It will query the `depexts` field for each package which contains
> OS-specific external dependencies.
>
> It's still not particularly well integrated into OPAM as it's external,
> but full support is in the works so that a plugin won't be needed in future
> revisions of OPAM.
>
> -anil
>
>

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