Articles written by Raja Boujbel

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Welcome, dear reader, to a new opam blog post! Today we take an additional step down the metaphorical rabbit hole with opam pin, the easiest way to catch a ride on the development version of a package in opam. We are aware that our readers are eager to see these blog posts venture on the developer s... (Read more)

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Welcome, dear reader, to a new series of blog posts! This series will be about everything opam. Each article will cover a specific aspect of the package manager, and make sure to dissipate any confusion or misunderstandings on this keystone of the OCaml distribution! Each technical article will be t... (Read more)

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Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.1.3. This opam release consists of backported fixes: Fix opam init and opam init --reinit when the jobs variable has been set in the opamrc or the current config. (#5056) opam var no longer fails if ... (Read more)

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Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are happy to announce the release of opam 2.1.0. Many new features made it in (see the pre-release changelogs or release notes for the details), but here are a few highlights. What's new in opam 2.1? Integration of system dependencies (formerly the op... (Read more)

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Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.9. This new version contains some back-ported fixes. New features Back-ported ability to load upgraded roots read-only; allows applications compiled with opam-state 2.0.9 to load a root which has b... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.8. This new version contains some backported fixes: Critical for fish users! Don't add . to PATH. [#4078] Fix sandbox script for newer ccache versions. [#4079 and #4087] Fix sandbox crash when ~/.cache is a symlink. [#4068] User modifications ... (Read more)

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We are happy to announce a alpha for opam 2.1.0, one year and a half in the making after the release of 2.0.0. Many new features made it in (see the complete changelog or release note for the details), but here are a few highlights of this release. Release highlights The two following features have ... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.7. This new version contains backported small fixes: Escape Windows paths on manpages [#4129 @AltGr @rjbou] Fix opam installer opam file [#4058 @rjbou] Fix various warnings [#4132 @rjbou @AltGr - fix #4100] Fix dune 2.5.0 promote-install-files... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.6. This new version contains some small backported fixes and build update: Don't remove git cache objects that may be used [#3831 @AltGr] Don't include .gitattributes in index.tar.gz [#3873 @dra27] Update FAQ uri [#3941 @dra27] Lock: add warni... (Read more)

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Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer la release (mineure) d’ opam 2.0.5. Cette nouvelle version contient des mises à jours de build et correctifs. Plus d’information... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.5. This new version contains build update and small fixes: Bump src_ext Dune to 1.6.3, allows compilation with OCaml 4.08.0. [#3887 @dra27] Support Dune 1.7.0 and later [#3888 @dra27 - fix #3870] Bump the ocaml_mccs lib-ext, to include latest ... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.4. This new version contains some backported fixes: Sandboxing on macOS: considering the possibility that TMPDIR is unset [#3597 @herbelin - fix #3576] display: Fix opam config var display, aligned on opam config list [#3723 @rjbou - rel. #3717] pin... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.3. This new version contains some backported fixes: Fix manpage remaining $ (OPAMBESTEFFORT) Fix OPAMROOTISOK handling Regenerate missing environment file Installation instructions (unchanged): From binaries: run or download manually from the Github... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.2. As sandbox scripts have been updated, don't forget to run opam init --reinit -ni to update yours. This new version contains mainly backported fixes: Doc: update man page add message for deprecated options reinsert removed ones to print a deprecat... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.1. This new version contains mainly backported fixes, some platform-specific: Cold boot for MacOS/CentOS/Alpine Install checksum validation on MacOS Archive extraction for OpenBSD now defaults to using gtar Fix compilation of mccs on MacOS and Nix p... (Read more)

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We are happy to announce the final release of opam 2.0.0. A few weeks ago, we released a last release candidate to be later promoted to 2.0.0, synchronised with the opam package repository upgrade. You are encouraged to update as soon as you see fit, to continue to get package updates: opam 2.0.0 su... (Read more)

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A few days ago, we released opam 2.0.0~rc4, and explained that this final release candidate was expected be promoted to 2.0.0, in sync with an upgrade to the opam package repository. So here are the details about this! If you are an opam user, and don't maintain opam packages You are encouraged to u... (Read more)

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We are happy to announce the opam 2.0.0 final release candidate! 🍾 This release features a few bugfixes over Release Candidate 3. It will be promoted to 2.0.0 proper within a few weeks, when the official repository format switches from 1.2.0 to 2.0.0. After that date, updates to the 1.2.0 reposit... (Read more)

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We are pleased to announce the release of a third release candidate for opam 2.0.0. This one is expected to be the last before 2.0.0 comes out. Changes since the 2.0.0~rc2 are, as expected, mostly fixes. We deemed it useful, however, to bring in the following: a new command opam switch link that all... (Read more)