Cannot create switch to mounted newtork drive

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Cannot create switch to mounted newtork drive #42

Closed ysalmon closed 1 year ago

ysalmon commented 1 year ago

I managed to install the prerelease of Diskuv OCaml.

When I say opam switch create k:\\OCaml 5.0.0, where k: is a network drive mounted to a UNC server, things actually happen in C:\\Users\\yann\\UNC\\VBOXSVR\\MVshare\\OCaml, and nothing is written to k: (compilation fails because "flexlink does not work", but that is another issue).

The opam installation from fdopen did not exhibit this behaviour.

jonahbeckford commented 1 year ago

The UNC server bug is unrelated to Diskuv OCaml. You aren't seeing anything with fdopen because it does not use the newer Opam 2.2. You'll need to file a bug with https://github.com/ocaml/opam and make sure to report your opam --version in it.

By the way:

5.0.0 will not work with Diskuv OCaml or any MSVC system. The OCaml team will announce when that is ready. Don't expect full support for MSVC until 5.1 or 5.2.
The only supported way to create local switches in Diskuv OCaml is dkml init. That is described in some detail on https://diskuv-ocaml.gitlab.io/distributions/dkml/doc/BeyondBasics.html