From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q084Bqrl019793 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 05:11:52 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArIBADkXCU/QYYSxemdsb2JhbABDFoR5pysqAQELCQ0FFAUiggsCDx0DATYBJA8CJgIkEgEFARYMNYdgmQQKijdqgz2NKgEGgS+CToZ+gRaIPYxQjgI9hBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,474,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="138282353" Received: from caiajhbdcbhh.dreamhost.com (HELO homiemail-a97.g.dreamhost.com) ([208.97.132.177]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Jan 2012 05:11:46 +0100 Received: from homiemail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBE628606F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:11:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=0ok.org; h=mime-version:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; q=dns; s=0ok.org; b=hboo8Ws LG3z6MDKcQ97xlCpdKRg95fh8QHMLV1R+joBXng0jut4eakj0EJ1CuvsXSqV082U D+Ml47WRlZHbH5je7ai489JDVX+GoD73JZ5ViPDTwRjLIn/sY62qrS/8BauohRv0 kGgw11IGbtTA9TsDUk5vw80tARLwklLvVDRo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=0ok.org; h=mime-version :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; s=0ok.org; bh=YXk jxnGYfesp3LRny9+QoRs2vSU=; b=UjgOWOH2D6xBnfLI4HdePAejGklfgkU45Os n5Gu1G+RyxfjkSaDLQVYaE2RgfadzCDUjWNcZkw+rVM16vXO7xPP/REgb8YwFTKw aPP69KBhCpflTE7BE3RRt18X64ugpLNv9Qsp7PCNGcI6C2DP30O6Wf/2HUf/M2jR x9+EtZXE= Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hez@0ok.org) by homiemail-a97.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E69D286020 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by obbwd18 with SMTP id wd18so5366214obb.27 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.164.104 with SMTP id yp8mr2690049obb.51.1325995904122; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:11:44 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.67.103 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:11:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Hezekiah M. Carty" Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 23:11:23 -0500 Message-ID: To: OCaml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [Caml-list] [ANN] ocamlbrew I would like to announce ocamlbrew, a (very simple, very alpha) tool for automating and managing builds of OCaml, findlib, and other OCaml-related items under $HOME on Linux. ocamlbrew takes it name and a bit of wrapper code from perlbrew[1]. ocamlbrew provides a thin bash wrapper around the standard OCaml + findlib build procedure, taking advantage of odb[2] for further library and tool installations. ocamlbrew currently lives on github: https://github.com/hcarty/ocamlbrew With one command[3] ocamlbrew can build OCaml, findlib, oasis, utop, Batteries, and ocamlscript from source, plus get an easily source-able file to set up your environment. Everything will be built and installed under $HOME/ocamlbrew by default. ocamlbrew can also be used to build OCaml from any branch on the official Subversion server. At this time I recommend using the "-f" ocamlbrew flag with builds coming from Subversion due to some incompatibilities between OCaml development versions and oasis. The -f flag tells ocamlbrew to only install OCaml, findlib, and odb.ml, skipping other tools and libraries. This will hopefully provide a simple way to test and provide feedback to the core OCaml development team when new releases or experimental branches are ready for testing. For more information, including ocamlbrew's requirements, see the README.md file at the link above. Enjoy! Many thanks to Edgar/thelema and Adrien/adrien for taking the time to test ocamlbrew and provide feedback as I was playing around with the process. Hez [1] - http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/App-perlbrew/bin/perlbrew [2] - https://github.com/thelema/odb [3] - Well, one command and the availability of all non-OCaml build prerequisites...