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opam is a source-based package manager. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2014-10-23 · latest 2025-11-07

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  1. …in more than 32 Unix groups. I couldn’t believe this was an actual bug in opam, and I found it: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/5373 I don’t think that’s an opam bug, it’s an issue with musl, and they just happened to build their…
    comment by Kwpolska · 2025-11-07 · in Why I love OCaml (2023)
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    Opam – OCaml Package Manager release landed with a full Windows support
    story by zerr · 2024-08-05 · 0 comments
  3. …to smooth out the thousands of details that get in the way right now: you can find more here: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/wiki/opam-2.2-slides.pdf From a compiler developer's perspective, the number of variations of toolchains available…
    comment by avsm · 2020-08-28 · in OCaml Workshop 2020 Online Conference is live now
  4. …- https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Packaging.html - https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Manual.html - https://github.com/ocaml/opam/tree/master/tests/packages I hope this helps.
    comment by johnisgood · 2020-02-24 · in OCaml 4.10
  5. …can occur in other install scripts out there. [0] https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Install.html [1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2165
    comment by shakna · 2019-11-09 · in Curl to shell isn't so bad
  6. …https://github.com/garrigue/lablgtk/issues/2 [4] https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/roadmap_page.php [5] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Ai... [6] http://opam.ocaml.org/blog/opam-2-0-0-repo-upgrade-roadmap/
    comment by xvilka · 2018-08-23 · in Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml
  7. …there is still room for improvement, but i'd say its atleast heading in the right direction! [1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam [2] https://github.com/ocaml/dune [3] https://github.com/diml/utop [4] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat
    comment by anuragsoni · 2018-06-28 · in State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]
  8. …for Ocaml completely broke my fish shell config, the bug seems to remain unfixed for two years now. https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2255 This is one of the reasons I'm reluctant to use fish again, these edge cases just aren't…
    comment by Barrin92 · 2017-11-10 · in GNU Readline for Better Productivity on the Command Line
  9. …with improving the Unicode support [2] in it I'd say it has a bigger potential in this field. [1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191 [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/153
    comment by xvilka · 2017-02-24 · in Tour of F#
  10. …(?) completely broke the fish path evaluation (not Patoline's fault, I guess). Manual fish fix: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2255 .
    comment by blipmusic · 2017-02-18 · in Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system (2012)
  11. …get opam installed on windows either. i don't know the answer, but apparently [it's not trivial]( https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/246 )
    comment by zem · 2016-05-19 · in A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
  12. …Windows support in OCaml itself and opam[2]. [1] https://github.com/facebook/reason/issues/470 [2] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191
    comment by xvilka · 2016-05-18 · in Reason: A new interface to OCaml
  13. …for Windows too (mostly smoothless opam experience, like the package managers for other languages) https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191
    comment by xvilka · 2016-04-28 · in OCaml 4.03.0 released (including flambda)
  14. And here is the pending effort for better experience of OCaml on Windows: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191
    comment by xvilka · 2016-03-02 · in OCaml 4.03: Everything else
  15. …[1] or lack of the opam [2] on this platform. [1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/153 [2] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191
    comment by xvilka · 2015-12-11 · in Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (1998)
  16. Not in a released version, but there's very active work in trunk to make it work natively: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/compare/master...dra27:windows-build A recent demo I saw a few weeks ago had everything running under Cygwin and…
    comment by avsm · 2015-11-16 · in Why We Use OCaml
  17. …solved in the near future. Because currently Microsoft trying to take the niche with their F#. [1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/246
    comment by xvilka · 2015-09-12 · in OCaml's 20th Anniversary
  18. …we developed OPAM along the way. We've also started putting Windows support in place via Appveyor: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/appveyor.yml It just can't be activated by default since GitHub doesn't support multiple commit…
    comment by avsm · 2014-10-23 · in Comparing OCaml and Standard ML
  19. …was just a temporary bug I think, I also encountered it, but it will be fixed real soon, see: < https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/1671> for instance.
    comment by p4bl0 · 2014-10-23 · in Comparing OCaml and Standard ML