Hi,

Do you plan on including coq.scm in the upgrade plan, as it also depends 
on dune? If so, would coq-packages also be upgraded, or should that be 
done after the ocaml-team branch has been merged with master?

Anyway, I am new to Guix, but will try to help if I can (time- and 
competence-wise) ! :)

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ds-ac

Le Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 04:32:48AM +0000, pukkamustard a écrit
> 
> Hello Guix,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Some things that I can think of:
> 
> * Update OCaml from 4.14.0 to 4.14.1
> 
> * Update OPAM from 2.1.3 to 2.1.5
>   - Requires a major update of ocaml-dose3 from 5.0.1 to 7.0.0
> 
> * Update Dune from 3.6.1 to 3.8.1
> 
> * Update Jane Street packages from 0.15.0 to 0.16.0
> 
> * Remove most ocaml4.07-* and ocaml4.09 packages
>   - We only want to keep the compiler around for bootstrapping purposes.
>   - Update unison 2.51.2 to 2.53.3: This makes it buildable with OCaml
>     4.14 or even 5.0.  (see
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-02/msg00253.html).
> 
> * Split packages from (gnu packages ocaml) into multiple modules. Maybe
>   in following modules:
> 
>   - (gnu packages ocaml): For the compiler and core dev packages (opam,
>     dune, merlin)
>   - (gnu packages ocaml-boot): For the 4.07 and 4.09 compilers
>   - (gnu packages ocaml-xyz): Everything else
> 
> Thoughts? Any other things? How do we get started with such a branch? 
> 
> Cheers,
> pukkamustard
>