opam init takes forever and unclear what it's doing

[ORESoftware]

Developer experience is terrible here, new to opam, new to ocaml

this takes forever, and I have no idea what it's doing

[ORESoftware]

[ORESoftware]

the second image - took like 15-40 seconds, no idea what it was doing

[kit-ty-kate]

How long does the first image takes? If it takes a long time could you show us what opam init --debug does?

As for the second image the message says "fetching repository information", so it’s just taking this time downloading and processing that data. Do you expect a more verbose output? If so what kind of output?

[AllanBlanchard]

I think that just some messages indicating that the download is running would be useful to just be sure that something is happening and the download operation is ongoing.

[kit-ty-kate]

I think that just some messages indicating that the download is running would be useful to just be sure that something is happening and the download operation is ongoing.

This was done in https://github.com/ocaml/opam/pull/5977 and was part of the recently released opam 2.2.0~beta3

[AllanBlanchard]

Hum. So it might due to the fact that powershell does not display things sometimes. For example, during build on Opam it does not update the packages being built during a long installation.