bug#35207: [PATCH] Resurrect pplacer.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> Le 11 avril 2019 14:55:44 GMT+02:00, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> a écrit :
>>>
>>>Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> What's the most recent version of ocaml pplacer can use?
>>>>
>>>> It’s actually 4.01.  I don’t know how much effort it’s going to be to
>>>> make it work with the latest version.
>>>
>>>I gave patching pplacer a try, but in more recent versions of OCaml
>>>strings are byte streams, so it’s quite a bit of work to figure out
>>>where exactly to convert strings to byte streams and back again.
>>>
>>>I’ll keep working on this for a while, but for now I’d like to get
>>>pplacer resurrected with 4.02 first.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Ricardo
>>
>> Ok, I guess it's acceptable. I'll fully review your patches later today.
>
> Thanks for the offer, but it won’t be necessary after all.  I figured
> out how to make it work with the latest OCaml.  I had to also patch
> ocaml-mcl, but that seems okay.
>
> New patches coming in a few minutes!

I pushed the new patches to the “master” branch with commit 12327d7447.

-- 
Ricardo