[ocaml-infra] New Git repository in ocaml GitHub org

Louis Gesbert louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com
Wed Jan 25 14:52:00 GMT 2017


> - Gabriel Scherer, 25/01/2017 15:38 -
> I agree that in general submodules can be a pain to use, but in this
> specific case I think that this is not likely to be an issue: most
> people would never need to pull the submodule or update it in any way,
> it would only need to be manipulated at release time (pull, copy
> files, commit, and that's it), which occurs infrequently.

Note however that more recent versions of opam do automatically pull git submodules, so for people using an OCaml compiler bound to the git URL (probably not that many), it might make things slightly slower instead.

Best,
Louis


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