This page [1] needs some help and is probably a good place for discussion
about IDEs. Please add any discussion you'd like and we'll merge it. Given
your list below, maybe you want to make a table of features with a
checkmark for each IDE having that feature (but that could be hard to
maintain, so plain prose might be better).

[1] http://ocaml.org/dev_tools.html

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>wrote:

> I spent some time last night going through all the "what is a good
> (beginner's) ide for ocaml?" threads I could find online, and trying
> out the various options suggested. I ruled out the following:
>
> * vim, emacs and eclipse (not beginner-friendly; people who want to
> use them will know how to do it)
> * anything that did not provide a binary install for Windows and OSX,
> and wasn't a simple configure/make/make install on linux
> * anything that needed fiddling with config files just to install it
> * anything that needed the OCaml sources to be independently present
> and configured (!)
> * anything that was abandoned, or didn't seem to support OCaml 4
>
> I was left with Geany and Komodo Edit as possibilities, and Geany won
> out by letting me open up a test.ml file and immediately being able to
> find and run the OCaml compiler. At least on Linux, it was a perfect
> beginner-friendly experience.
>
> So what do people think about ocaml.org officially promoting Geany as
> the answer to "I'm learning OCaml; what is a good IDE?"? I'd be happy
> to write up a page on it and contribute it.
>
> martin
>
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