Opam Onboarding

[PizieDust]

This PR introduces a new way to onboard users into the OCaml ecosystem.
It uses a short interactive tutorial to guide the user through the various steps of setting up OCaml.

• Installing Opam
• Initializing Opam
• Activating an Opam switch
• Installing developer tools (ocaml lsp server, ocamlformat, odoc, utop, dune)
• Verifying that ocaml is correctly setup with utop.
• Finishing and linking to the tutorials for beginners on ocaml.org

cc @voodoos

[voodoos]

We should add the survey link in the onboarding. Maybe also in the status bar / command panel in a separate PR ?

[smorimoto]

It may be better to write the alt text more properly, or to leave it blank at all. We can come up with some ideas about that for accessibility.

[voodoos]

Is there a way to automatically check the various steps at the end of command execution ?
Ideally we would also not permit users to "install opam" if they already have opam installed...

[PizieDust]

Is there a way to automatically check the various steps at the end of command execution ? Ideally we would also not permit users to "install opam" if they already have opam installed...

Indeed. I think the best way is to check if opam is installed and just move to the next step or exit the onboarding with a toast explaining opam is already installed

[PizieDust]

Is there a way to automatically check the various steps at the end of command execution ?

Yes, this is now available.

[pitag-ha]

Hi @PizieDust , this looks awesome! It could significantly improve the experience of people setting up OCaml. Would it be easy to drop a quick screencast of the walkthrough here? I'll review the code next week!

[pitag-ha]

Thanks! I think we should merge this rather sooner than later and see what feedback we get.

Is the following comment from above already adressed?

Ideally we would also not permit users to "install opam" if they already have opam installed...

[PizieDust]

@smorimoto Have you been able to try this out? I'm curious to get your observations

[pitag-ha]

@smorimoto , what do you think? IMO if there's no reason why not to merge this, we should merge it to get some feedback :)

[PizieDust]

@smorimoto Hi Sora. The merge conflicts are fixed now

[pitag-ha]

Hi @smorimoto ,

I was wondering: Is there anything we haven't noticed that is blocking this from getting merged?

[smorimoto]

I don't think so, but basically I'm not in a position to decide when we add a new feature though.