[Caml-list] [ANN] opaline - OPAm Lightweight INstaller Engine

[Caml-list] [ANN] opaline - OPAm Lightweight INstaller Engine

[Jaap Boender]

Hi list,

Just in case it helps anyone else: I wrote a lightweight OPAM installer 
that avoids the circular dependencies that opam-installer has - it 
depends only on ocaml, ocamlbuild and opam-file-format.

It's a fairly rough piece of software and not very (end-)user-friendly, 
but I've incorporated it into pkgsrc and it does work with all of the 
.install files I've encountered there, so I'd say it works for 
distribution editor purposes.

Available at github.com/jaapb/opaline.

best

   Jaap

Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] opaline - OPAm Lightweight INstaller Engine

[Rudi Grinberg]

Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org> writes:

> Just in case it helps anyone else: I wrote a lightweight OPAM installer 
> that avoids the circular dependencies that opam-installer has - it 
> depends only on ocaml, ocamlbuild and opam-file-format.

In dune, we've encountered the same problem [1]. Our plan is to solve it
the same way - by re-implementing (a superset of) opam-installer. It's a
bit of a shame that this might end up happening thrice.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/dune/issues/680