I'm going to try all of this in fresh-and-shiny mode on my mac. I'll report my results back.
y On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Now merged. There's a failure in the OPAM 1.1 compatibility case, > and I suspect a lot of students will have the latest Ubuntu and run > into this problem (14.10 has a broken OPAM out of the box due to an > upstream packaging mismatch). > > However, feedback from those trying it on OPAM 1.2 via: > > opam update > opam install user-setup > > would be appreciated. > > Anil > >> On 22 Jan 2015, at 00:05, Yaron Minsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That seems great. Can we get it merged in soon? School in the US is >> starting up very very soon, and I suspect a number of different >> schools would find this very useful. >> >> y >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 22 Jan 2015, at 00:00, Yaron Minsky <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was just chatting with Greg about this, and I wanted to broaden the >>>> question out: how should a teacher set up a mac environment using >>>> opam? Ideally, it would be nice if we could give people a pretty >>>> simple script that would get them editor configs, tools like merlin >>>> and ocp-indent, and a set of libraries at fixed versions that won't >>>> change for the whole semester. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have a demo of such a thing set up? Louis, how is your >>>> opam-in-a-box work coming along, and is it at a point where people can >>>> start using it? >>> >>> It's not merged into OPAM yet, but see the user-setup.0.1 package that does >>> just this: >>> >>> https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/3428 >>> >>> Description: >>>> OPAM User Setup helper to configure various editors and tools for OCaml >>>> >>>> This package, currently in alpha, attempts to help initial setup for new >>>> OCaml >>>> users by automating the tedious task of adjusting editor and tool >>>> configuration. >>>> >>>> It will run after the installation of ocp-indent, merlin or similar tools >>>> and >>>> adjust the configuration for your available editors accordingly. It won't >>>> suit >>>> advanced users who prefer to do such things by hand anyway. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -anil >> > _______________________________________________ Teaching mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/teaching
