dev meeting 20231018

present: @Alizter, @Leonidas-from-XIV, @rjbou, @rikusilvola

• Dune opinionated: should we change the headline to something else?

  • ocaml/dune#850
  • Pros:
    • Concerns about this scaring away people - is this really a selling point?
    • Could still be mentioned later in the docs!
  • Cons:
    • Removing the mention could reduce our ability to say no to new workflows
    • Removing the mention could reduce our ability to make opinionated decisions
    • Are those real concerns?
  • To be discussed further on the issue and on Slack

• Dune pkg not working with Zarith

  • ocaml/dune#8931
  • Issue with use of ocamlfind install not working
  • Widely used package that needs to be supported
  • Rather not maintain an overlay, or a workaround in Dune itself (increasing toil)
  • Adding prefix variable in opam file to be investigated

• Discussion on definition of Windows support

  • Platform Roadmap states that we should aim to provide same functionality on the Tier1 OCaml platforms (with caveats e.g. sandboxing)
  • Dune itself, nor any platform tool team, is responsible for other tools being Windows compatible (e.g. compiler)

• Two new package management commands

  • dune pkg outdated for seeing outdated packages in the lock file
  • dune describe pkg lock for seeing lockfile contents without ls-ing files in the lock folder