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This tracks the high-level meta-issues that we know to be needed to complete the milestone. ## Aim We are aiming to achieve stable and non-experimental support for package management in dune. We take MSP to mean: 1. That `dune pkg` can be used reliably by OCaml users for developing *most* OCaml software projects. 2. That users do not need to make recourse to `opam` or other package management systems, *unless the workflows requiring workarounds are identified and documented*. (But they still can!) ## **Developing OCaml software projects** includes more that just building projects and installing their dependencies. It also includes, at least: - being able to install (nearly) any opam package (e.g., even if the source uses symlinks) - being able to install any desired OCaml developer tools - being able to query packages available for installation - being able to install software from the ecosystem used for development - launching repls - interoperating easily with common IDEs (VSCode, Vim, & Emacs) - running tests - generating documentation When we determine that this milestone is achieved we will record this outcome by removing the "experimental" warnings on the online and CLI documentation for `dune pkg` and `dune tools`, and we will then begin encouraging working OCaml developers to use `dune pkg` in their day to day work. ## Limitations - This stage of the tools should be *stable* in the sense that it works reliably, and supports the essential, day-to-day activities of individual developers and small software teams. - However, we don't need to solve every problem or provide all the planned features. For example: - We don't need to provide flashy terminal output: while nice terminal UX is a nice to have and will be supplied eventually, that is completely inessential for a working alternative to opam. - Support for Windows is *very important* but we can achieve stability on Linux and MacOS first, and then take on Windows support as our next priority
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