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drom is a wrapper over opam/dune in an attempt to provide a cargo-like user experience. It can be used to create full OCaml projects with sphinx and odoc documentation. It has specific knowledge of Github and will generate files for Github Actions CI and Github pages.
Source code at GitHub https://ocamlpro.github.io/drom
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drom

Section titled “drom”

The drom tool is a wrapper over opam/dune in an attempt to provide a cargo-like user experience. It can be used to create full OCaml projects with sphinx and odoc documentation. It has specific knowledge of Github and will generate files for Github Actions CI and Github pages.

Simple Example

Section titled “Simple Example”

You can create a new OCaml project with:

$ drom new my-client --skeleton mini_prg
Creating project "my-client" with skeleton "mini_prg", license "LGPL2"
  and sources in src/my-client:
Creating directory my-client
Using skeleton "program" for package "my-client"
[master (root-commit) 8d83262] Initial commit


└── my-client/
    ├── .drom             (drom state, do not edit)
    ├── .github/
    │   └── workflows/
    │       └── workflow.yml
    ├── .gitignore
    ├── CHANGES.md
    ├── LICENSE.md
    ├── Makefile
    ├── README.md
    ├── drom.toml    <────────── project config EDIT !
    ├── dune
    ├── dune-project
    ├── opam/
    │   └── my-client.opam
    ├── scripts/
    │   ├── after.sh
    │   ├── before.sh
    │   └── copy-bin.sh
    └── src/
        └── my-client/
            ├── dune
            ├── main.ml
            ├── package.toml    <────────── package config EDIT !
            └── version.mlt

This project uses the minimalist mini_prg skeleton, but other skeletons like program or library have more files.