Notes from the Windows corner
The spring-cleaning continues! When I originally prototyped Relocatable OCaml, it was during the OCaml 4.13 development cycle. The focus for the work originally was always about multiple versions of the compiler co-existing without interfering with each other, so even the early prototypes were...
Notes from the Windows corner
As we settle into 2026, I have been doing a little early spring-cleaning. A few years ago, we had a slightly chaotic time in opam-repository over what should have been a migration from gforge.inria.fr to a new GitLab instance. Unfortunately, some release archives effectively disappeared from...
Notes from the Windows corner
As I was very happy to announce on Discuss on 12 December, OCaml is Relocatable! Today, the final piece of the puzzle was merged, which is the necessary support to allow opam to take advantage of all this to be able to clone switches instead of recompiling them. Before this, you could rename a...