[ocaml-platform] [Caml-list] [ANN] Experiment: OCaml patch review on github.com/ocaml/ocaml

[Louis Gesbert]

Thanks Anil !

> It is awfully useful. I was trying to setup an OPAM repository for simplifying the review of PR#22,
> but you did it for me and all the others, thank you.
> 
>  I'm just wondering if it is wise to add all these switches to the default OPAM repository. For
> casual ocaml user the useful switches are lost among all these PR.
> 
>   Perhaps the default possible switches can be reduced to the last releases (for people that work on
> project that must support old version of ocaml) and to the beta and trunk for people that are
> curious of the accepted new features.

That's why in OPAM 1.1.1 we changed `opam switch list` to only display the default compilers, and you need to add `--all` to see all existing compiler descriptions. I think it's enough to address your concern.

But that doesn't prevent a specific repo of course.