leonidas-from-xiv/nosetup

An automatic require loader for OCaml toplevels

nosetup - An .ocamlinit helper to #require packages in an OCaml toplevels

nosetup helps you to load the dependencies of your project into your toplevel of choice (OCaml Toplevel as well as UTOP) so you don't have to #require your dependencies yourself. It does so by finding your project metadata (even if you are in a subdirectory, similar to git), parsing it and then using findlib to load it into your toplevel session.

Currently it supports Merlin's .merlin files, though there is no limitation of which files could be supported as long as the findlib package names can be parsed.

Naming

You can call it no-setup or nose-tup. In the latter case you can use (👃,👃) as logo.

Installation

Be sure to have installed:

opam switch create . --deps-only ocaml-base-compiler.4.07.1

then building the source can be done with a simple incantation:

make

Usage

You need to add a bit to your .ocamlinit:

#require "nosetup";;

Now every utop you'll start will have all the findlib packages from your .merlin file preloaded. No need to do anything more.

License

As you can see in the LICENSE.md, it is Apache 2.0 licensed.