Re: [Caml-list] Project hosting for new OCaml projects

["Hezekiah M. Carty" <hez@0ok.org>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Simon Cruanes
<simon.cruanes.2007@m4x.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems that the following are worth doing:
> >
> > * Support OASIS (and in so doing, I believe that will migrate its build
> > system to ocamlbuild)
>
> oasis is very nice in that it centralizes, in a single _oasis file,
> everything about the project. In particular, it deals with the META file,
> building cmxa, cma, cmxs, etc. It can generate a "configure" and a
> Makefile (if you so wish), points to the documentation, the VCS
> repository, deals with several libraries (or sub-libraries, see how lwt
> does it for instance) and executables, etc.
>
> > * Support OPAM (which looks incredibly straightforward - being primarily a
> > Windows user, the OPAM typhoon has flowed past me thus far)
>
> Pretty simple indeed, 3 small files in the opam-repository and you're done.
> Also the opam team is quite reactive and helpful with packaging
> problems.
>

An additional small benefit to using oasis - oasis2opam, which is
installable from opam, allows you to automatically generate opam
metadata from your project's _oasis file.  Writing out the three opam
files by hand is simple, oasis2opam makes it even easier.

Hez