On 8 Feb 2016, at 22:07, Daniel Bünzli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Having seen a worrying trend of people submitting package with ad-hoc 
> installers made out of Makefile targets that will fail in various fashions on 
> more constrained switches, I think it would be good to have at least one 
> distribution with a bytecode only switch. This would ensure that packages are 
> able to build in such constrained environment. 
> 
> Bytecode only switches are useful for ocaml language/runtime/compiler 
> researchers and to use OCaml on more esoteric platforms that lack native-code 
> support.

Agreed -- I run into this frequently when porting to OpenBSD PowerPC, and it's 
much easier to fix it as we go along.

Would anyone have time to put together an OPAM bytecode-compiler-only switch 
for 4.02.3?  I can create the base packages easily then.

-anil
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