Re:OCaml 4.10
by yawaramin on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:16PM
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Can you give some specifics about what's lacking in the dune docs?
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Re:OCaml 4.10
by gopiandcode on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:26AM
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I think the documentation would benefit from suggesting the use of the `dune init ...` commands for beginners - ideally somewhere on the github readme or the readthedocs quickstart.
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.
It has been a while. I admit I haven't read the entire tutorial and I checked the website just now -- seems like stuff has been added (and maybe modified). Looks a bit more understandable and beginner-friendly now! I'll have to give my two hobby projects another go from scratch. :)
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?