On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Jordan W <jordojw@gmail.com> wrote:

> The overarching goal was to just explore the ideal developer
> flow for people who are either used to CommonJS or who appreciate a
> highly sandboxed development model without globals.


This is something I'm keen to see as well - extend the opam switch concept
to per project. Forcing a switch during build is just a poor imitation of
that.


I don't know enough about the OCaml build toolchain to solve this in a
> scalable way so I made it work generally enough for a couple of the
> projects that I'm prototyping. I hope the same can be achieved in some
> other more sophisticated build tool. Has anyone seen anything like the
> automatic namespacing I've prototyped here? I couldn't imagine
> developing without it, personally.


+1

I'll end up developing something custom (or templates like we use in JS) if
need be to suit our development style - which sounds similar to yours - a
bunch of small internal library projects all composed in a tree of
dependencies, culminating in a single high level integration / package
project for the application.

Cheers,
Andy