Hi Hezekiah

I gave it a shot after a new install of debian wheezy, and it went really
smoothly. The install was not exactly fresh, as I had installed ocaml
packages first (old reflex), but anyway I found two deps that blocked the
installation : one on libev-dev (for lwt/utop I suppose) and libpcre3-dev
(for oasis?). As it's only two, maybe it'd be worth to add them on the
README.md.

ocamlbrew, combined with odb for installing libraries is obviously a nice
combo (at least for unix users) and seems less complex than GODI. However I
believe both tools adopt rather different strategies regarding maintenance.
GODI is good at updating packages to new versions, but up till now I am not
sure ocamlbrew/odb can do the same. It seems that with the latter, you'd
preferably start a new install from scratch rather than trying to find
what's to be updated and effectively update it. Did I miss something?

Anyway, thanks for this work, which was useful to me.
Philippe.

2012/1/8 Hezekiah M. Carty <hez@0ok.org>

> 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...
>
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