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

David Allsopp dra-news at metastack.com
Wed Jan 25 15:01:14 GMT 2017


Louis Gesbert wrote:
> > - 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.

That's a Windows-shaped problem which I haven't got to yet - is it possible to disable or list either modules which should (or shouldn't) be initialised?


David 



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