# The Growth of the OCaml Distribution

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**Created:** [17 January 2023 17:25 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-growth-of-the-ocaml-distribution/92115 "2023-01-17T17:25:03Z")\
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> The Growth of the OCaml Distribution.  
> We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gi…

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> **[The Growth of the OCaml Distribution](https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2023_01_02_ocaml_distribution/)**
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> We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed)...

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