[ocaml-platform] Passing OPAM data to build parameters

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On 17 Mar 2014, at 12:20, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring at web.de> wrote:

>> Moving forward, there are tentative designs for tighter ocamlfind integration,
>> but nothing beyond rough prototypes yet.
> 
> I am curious about progress in this application area.
> 
> I have got some learning challenges to determine appropriate build parameters
> for OCaml tools while extending my software development experience.
> How do you think about a few more hints?

I'm writing up the results of some of my experiments, but it's not ready yet.

Louis has another experimental branch of OPAM which turns compilers into
packages, and that's also quite useful towards better integration of findlib.
I'll leave Louis to explain that, however.

-anil