thousands of bisect files generated by odig odoc

[avsm]

Running the latest development version of odoc generates a lot of bisect coverage files in the current directory, due to cd570b2 turning it on by default.

This does cause builds to take hours vs minutes for large package sets. Is there any way to turn off coverage testing and still use a opam pin odoc --dev version in the doc generation scripts?

[aantron]

Yes, I made Bisect on by default to help new contributors a couple weeks ago, but I don't think anyone is checking coverage. I'll turn it off.

The ultimate solution to this is being worked for in ocaml/dune#616, but we don't have to wait for that to fix the script.

[avsm]

Thanks; I'd be happy to save up and publish the bisect coverage from a bulk build if that'll help...

[aantron]

It should work now.

The bulk coverage files could be useful to see what features are actually being used in opam. However, I think we aren't ready to make use of the information soon.

[avsm]

Thanks! This is helpful to my prototyping a Dune+odoc build of the Real World OCaml docs on docs.realworldocaml.org (the URL isnt publicised yet so this is a good chance to experiment)