Re: OPAM 1.0.0 released !

[Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I've received few questions related to upgrading OPAM itself, I've added 
Anil's response to [1] to the FAQ:

    https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/wiki/FAQ

[1] https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/528

Best,
Thomas

On Mar 14, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:

> I nm *very* happy to announce the first official release of OPAM!
> 
> Many of you already know and use OPAM so I won't be long. Please read 
> http://www.ocamlpro.com/blog/2013/01/17/opam-beta.html for a longer 
> description.
> 
> 1.0.0 fixes many bugs and add few new features to the previously announced 
> beta-release.
> 
> The most visible new feature, which should be useful for beginners with OCaml 
> and OPAM,  is an auto-configuration tool. This tool easily enables all the 
> features of OPAM (auto-completion, fix the loading of scripts for the 
> toplevel, opam-switch-eval alias, etc). This tool runs interactively on each 
> `opam init` invocation. If you don't like OPAM to change your configuration 
> files, use `opam init --no-setup`. If you trust the tool blindly,  use `opam 
> init --auto-setup`. You can later review the setup by doing `opam config 
> setup --list` and call the tool again using `opam config setup` (and you can 
> of course manually edit your ~/.profile (or ~/.zshrc for zsh users), 
> ~/.ocamlinit and ~/.opam/opam-init/*).
> 
> Please report:
> - Bug reports and feature requests for the OPAM tool: 
> http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues
> - Packaging issues or requests for a new package: 
> http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/issues
> - General queries to: http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/platform
> - More specific queries about the internals of OPAM to: 
> http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
> 
> On behalf on the OPAM team,
> Thomas
> 
> === Install ===
> 
> Packages for Debian and OSX (at least homebrew) should follow shortly and I'm 
> looking for volunteers to create and maintain rpm packages. The binary 
> installer is up-to-date for Linux and Darwin 64-bit architectures, the 32-bit 
> version for Linux should arrive shortly.
> 
> If you want to build from sources, the full archive (including dependencies) 
> is available here:
> 
>   http://www.ocamlpro.com/pub/opam-full-latest.tar.gz
> 
> === Upgrade ===
> 
> If you are upgrading from 0.9.* you won't  have anything special to do apart 
> installing the new binary. You can then update your package metadata by 
> running `opam update`. If you want to use the auto-setup feature, remove the 
> "eval `opam config env` line you have previously added in your ~/.profile and 
> run `opam config setup --all`.
> 
> So everything should be fine. But you never know ... so if something goes 
> horribly wrong in the upgrade process (of if your are upgrading from an old 
> version of OPAM) you can still trash your ~/.opam, manually remove what OPAM 
> added in  your ~/.profile (~/.zshrc for zsh users) and ~/.ocamlinit, and 
> start again from scratch. 
> 
> === Random stats ===
> 
> Great success on github. Thanks everybody for the great contributions!
> 
> https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam: +2000 commits, 26 contributors
> https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository: +1700 commits, 75 contributors, 
> 370+ packages
> 
> on http://opam.ocamlpro.com/
> +400 unique visitor per week, 15k 'opam update' per week
> +1300 unique visitor per month, 55k 'opam update' per month
> 3815 unique visitor since the alpha release
> 
> === Changelog ===
> 
> The full change-log since the beta release in January:
> 
> 1.0.0 [Mar 2013]
> * Improve the lexer performance (thx to @oandrieu)
> * Fix various typos (thx to @chaudhuri)
> * Fix build issue (thx to @avsm)
> 
> 0.9.6 [Mar 2013]
> * Fix installation of pinned packages on BSD (thx to @smondet)
> * Fix configuration for zsh users (thx to @AltGr)
> * Fix loading of `~/.profile` when using dash (eg. in Debian/Ubuntu)
> * Fix installation of packages with symbolic links (regression introduced in 
> 0.9.5)
> 
> 0.9.5 [Mar 2013]
> * If necessary, apply patches and substitute files before removing a package
> * Fix `opam remove <pkg> --keep-build-dir` keeps the folder if a source 
> archive is extracted
> * Add build and install rules using ocamlbuild to help distro packagers
> * Support arbitrary level of nested subdirectories in packages repositories
> * Add `opam config exec "CMD ARG1 ... ARGn" --switch=SWITCH` to execute a 
> command in a subshell
> * Improve the behaviour of `opam update` wrt. pinned packages
> * Change the default external solver criteria (only useful if you have aspcud 
> installed on your machine)
> * Add support for global and user configuration for OPAM (`opam config setup`)
> * Stop yelling when OPAM is not up-to-date
> * Update or generate `~/.ocamlinit` when running `opam init`
> * Fix tests on *BSD (thx Arnaud Degroote)
> * Fix compilation for the source archive
> 
> 0.9.4 [Feb 2013]
> * Disable auto-removal of unused dependencies. This can now be enabled 
> on-demand using `-a`
> * Fix compilation and basic usage on Cygwin
> * Fix BSD support (use `type` instead of `which` to detect existing commands)
> * Add a way to tag external dependencies in OPAM files
> * Better error messages when trying to upgrade pinned packages
> * Display `depends` and `depopts` fields in `opam info`
> * `opam info pkg.version` shows the metadata for this given package version
> * Add missing `doc` fields in `.install` files
> * `opam list` now only shows installable packages
> 
> 0.9.3 [Feb 2013]
> * Add system compiler constraints in OPAM files
> * Better error messages in case of conflicts
> * Cleaner API to install/uninstall packages
> * On upgrade, OPAM now perform all the remove action first
> * Use a cache for main storing OPAM metadata: this greatly speed-up OPAM 
> invocations
> * after an upgrade, propose to reinstall a pinned package only if there were 
> some changes
> * improvements to the solver heuristics
> * better error messages on cyclic dependencies
> 
> 0.9.2 [Jan 2013]
> * Install all the API files
> * Fix `opam repo remove repo-name`
> * speed-up `opam config env`
> * support for `opam-foo` scripts (which can be called using `opam foo`)
> * 'opam update pinned-package' works
> * Fix 'opam-mk-repo -a'
> * Fix 'opam-mk-repo -i'
> * clean-up pinned cache dir when a pinned package fails to install
> 
> 0.9.1 [Jan 2013]
> * Use ocaml-re 1.2.0
>