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by Zababa 1719 days ago
There's no mention of dune on the old page, which sounds like what they were looking for.

> Look, I agree with you that OCaml installation and tooling are not the easiest to get into. But it wasn't like what the GP was making it out to be.

I disagree with your interpretation of the initial post. Notice the "But it to me seemed" and "My experience with OCaml", and also "The way of the world today to me seems to be". These things are important. They inform us that that person is not exposing a truth, but sharing an experience, and personal preferences. They are also, I think, a way of saying "I don't know if the installation process was too hard, or if it was me that didn't understood something, but what I know is that in the end it didn't work out.".

So at this point, you have multiple options. You can empathize, you can work hard on trying to solve the issues on your end, assuming they are on your end, which might not be the case, you can ignore the post. What, I think, you shouldn't do is to deny this experience and imply that that person is "unreasonable".