Yeah, I believe new projects tend to use dune, and some older projects have switched from OASIS to dune. I personally still use OASIS mainly due to laziness. :D
> But I need a quality material on everything you can do with `dune`. Can you recommend such?
I have not used dune myself, but a quick glance at these sites suggests that they may be quite useful:
- https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- https://github.com/ocaml/dune/blob/master/doc/quick-start.rs...
- https://github.com/ocaml/dune/tree/master/example
- https://ocamlverse.github.io/content/quickstart_ocaml_projec...
- https://medium.com/@bobbypriambodo/starting-an-ocaml-app-pro...
For opam:
- https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/FAQ.html
- 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.
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, last time I seriously attempted getting more into OCaml has been at least half a year ago. I either didn't find some of those materials or they have been improved in the meantime.
Whatever the case, I can see clearly now that I was wrong about the poor quality of the dune and opam teaching material.
I apologise for that. And I'll be making a comeback to OCaml. I mean, it still has roadblocks but they are easier to overcome when tooling is handled (minus the lack of the multicore support but fingers crossed that that's coming soon).
When starting out with OCaml, as I was more accustomed to makefiles, the process of setting up dune projects was a major hurdle. I later found the init commands while looking through the man pages, and was surprised it wasn't more clearly mentioned in the project documentation.
Is it OK for me to hit you up on OCaml's Discourse forum if I need help or want to give extra feedback when I am able to, in the future?
I got through some of them and I felt the quality of the OCaml teaching material itself is very high. No remarks there. Any syntax cognitive shock is eventually overcome and things flow pretty well.
Wasn't `oasis` the legacy way of building projects? Thought everyone used `dune` now?
In short, I am looking for the way that most OCaml programmers manage their project nowadays. I know this is happening through `dune` but the tool's documentation and educational material is very lacking. I don't object against the build file being LISP; when I thought about it for a minute it actually makes a lot of sense.
But I need a quality material on everything you can do with `dune`. Can you recommend such?