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Meetup 19: Bootstrapping OCaml projects without package manager

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Manas Jayanth
Manas Jayanth
Managing Partner at Dining Philosophers, LLP.

We discussed what's needed by the package manager to make it's project bootstrap without itself.

Notably,

  1. Trace the complete transitive closure of the dependencies - so package manager must build such dependencies in isolation to catching missing dependencies.

  2. Trace the complete build environment variables

  3. A parser for .install files that ocaml build systems create to install built artifacts

A PoC with esy package manager can be found here

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