Opam has gotten quite good. When you set it up, you're being guided through all the steps. Works best on Mac, with Linux a close 2nd. Windoze may pose some extra challenges for setting up a working environment.
Probably never going to use OCaml again (just for business reasons, nothing against it per se), but good info for other readers.
EDIT: I also hope some of the OCaml'ers did get some of use of the things I wrote. I'm not going to doxx myself by naming the exact things, but just wanted to say... I hope you took advantage of them because the stdlib was quite anemic, so you might want to extend it. They were just missing bits of the ecosystem that I wanted to be more convenient... and I implemented a data structure paper or two.
