Re: Ideas for ocaml-team

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

I don't think it makes sense to have a separate brarch when we have so few contributions, and so few impacted packages

Le 12 septembre 2023 08:57:56 GMT+02:00, pukkamustard <pukkamustard@posteo.net> a écrit :
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>Salut!
>
>Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> I think it's time to start an `ocaml-team` (or `ocaml-updates`) branch
>>> to collect some bigger updates and changes to the OCaml packages in
>>> Guix.
>>
>> I think that’s a great idea. :-)  Any progress on this?
>>
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>There is #64249 (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64249) to which I just
>submitted a v6.
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>>> * Remove most ocaml4.07-* and ocaml4.09 packages
>>>   - We only want to keep the compiler around for bootstrapping purposes.
>>
>> Currently camlboot is used by ocaml-4.07-boot used by ocaml-4.07.  But
>> then version 4.09 and later and not bootstrapped; well they use the
>> upstream bootstrap (which is boot/ocamlc and friends IIRC).
>>
>> Well, independently of this upgrade plan, the OCaml bootstrap could be
>> the chain 4.07 -> 4.09 -> … and I do not know if 4.09 would be enough
>> for 4.14.  And if 4.14 would also be enough for 5.
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>I don't know either and I don't think I will have time to look into this
>soonish.
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>I think placing the 4.07 and 4.09 compiler in (gnu packages ocaml-boot),
>even if unused, seems reasonable. We should add some nice
>comments/breadcrumbs for whoever looks into completing the chain in the
>future.
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>> That’s said, aside this bootstrapping consideration, I am in favor to
>> remove 4.07 and 4.09 OCaml packages.
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>Ack
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>> Do we create the branch ocaml-team for doing this plan?
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>Just asked a similar question in the cover for the v6 to
>#64249. Basically I don't know how fast I/we will be able to look into
>the other items in this list. Maybe it makes sense to just merge in to
>master instead of having a too long-lived ocaml-team branch? Or set a
>pre-defined time-to-live for the branch? What's the current modus
>operandi for other teams?
>
>Cheers,
>pukkamustard