From: Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: 38861-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38861: [WIP 1/1] gnu: Add ocaml-4.09.
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:50:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muarowjm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo9yn4dj.fsf@gnu.org> (Brett Gilio's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:55:36 -0600")
Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org> writes:
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>>
>> I tried to do that not so long ago, but failed because of two
>> packages: bap and another one I can't remember. The whole janestreet
>> stuff (core and ppx-*) needs to be re-imported: many dependencies
>> changed.
>>
>> I think we can have two versions of ocaml if some packages don't
>> support the latest. In that case, I would only duplicate packages that
>> are dependencies of these packages. In general, you can use a
>> procedure to recursively modify ocaml packages so they use the older
>> version. See package-with-ocaml4.02 that existed at some point.
>>
>
> Thanks for your help Julien. I am trying some things on my channel. Will
> report back here in a few days.
Development is occuring now on branch 'wip-ocaml4.09'. Closing.
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Brett M. Gilio
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-02 1:12 [bug#38861] [WIP 0/1] Add ocaml-4.09 Brett Gilio
2020-01-02 1:14 ` [bug#38861] [WIP 1/1] gnu: " Brett Gilio
2020-01-08 6:39 ` Brett Gilio
2020-01-08 12:44 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-01-11 1:55 ` Brett Gilio
2020-01-13 21:50 ` Brett Gilio [this message]
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