Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] beta-release of OPAM

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I added `opam switch 4.01.0dev+trunk` recently, which will grab the latest 
trunk snapshot.
To reinstall it and refresh to a newer snapshot, just do `opam switch reinstall 
4.01.0dev+trunk`, which will also attempt to recompile any packages you had in 
there before.

It's also pretty easy to add your own branches; see
https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/blob/master/compilers/4.01.0dev%2Btrunk.comp
...for the trunk description, and there are several others out there.

Pierre is maintaining his various optimisation patches in his repository as an 
example, so you can see how to maintain custom branches as normal OPAM remotes 
(just like for packages).
https://github.com/chambart/opam-compilers-repository

Note that SVN isn't directly supported by OPAM (only Darcs and Git), so all of 
these are using the SVN->Git mirror at http://github.com/ocaml/ocaml, which is 
updated every hour via our friendly double-humped Bactrian Github bot.  Let us 
know how you get along with this!

-anil

On 17 Jan 2013, at 17:15, Alain Frisch <alain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Is there a way to tell OPAM to install from INRIA's SVN repository (either 
> the trunk or a specific branch), and to update on demand?
> 
> Alain
>