Spawn is a small library exposing only one function: Spawn.spawn. Its purpose is to start command in the background. Spawn aims to provide a few missing features of Unix.create_process such as providing a working directory as well as improving error reporting and performance.
Spawn is a small library exposing only one function: Spawn.spawn. Its purpose is to start command in the background. Spawn aims to provide a few missing features of Unix.create_process such as providing a working directory as well as improving error reporting and performance.
To install ocaml-spawn, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install ocaml-spawn
To see what files were installed by ocaml-spawn, run:
port contents ocaml-spawn
To later upgrade ocaml-spawn, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade ocaml-spawn
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