[ocaml-platform] opam-in-a-box

[Louis Gesbert]

> > * keep the ad-hoc scripting to a minimum. So that it's easier to maintain, contribute, and not get too tied to a given tool (e.g. Vagrant)
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> Absolutely -- it would be really useful to have a reusable set of scripts that we could reuse across (e.g.) Docker and Vagrant.
> 

See https://github.com/AltGr/opam-user-setup/ for a first prototype

> Thomas Gazagnaire suggest pulling out opam-installext from the Docker scripts into an OPAM package so that we can just install it easily.

Excellent idea, too

> > * Now the tough part: setting up the account for a nice default user setup, with a possible choice of editors. For that I'm starting to work on the 'opam package for user setup' (opus ?) ('OCaml TOol Package for User Setup', 'octopus' ? :))
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> I guess this only applies for whole-VM virtualisation like Vagrant.  In the case of Docker packages, we can just skip all this and let the host editor work.  Do we have a page somewhere where we can editor customisation instructions easily?  Right now it's spread across Real World OCaml's installation instructions, the Merlin website, etc.
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I was hoping it would be as useful for Docker ; on the instructions, yeah, I've been trying to gather from different sources, and have the hope to attract all good setups to a single point. I'm still not sure about the relation between opam-user-setup and the documentation, but the latter needs to be part of the effort.

> This sounds excellent.  What about managing `~/.ocamlinit` as well?  That's a very common missing step among RWO readers.

Why not indeed.

Cheers,
Louis
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