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Re: Ideas for ocaml-team
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DABY-SEESARAM Arnaud |
Subject: |
Re: Ideas for ocaml-team |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:46:04 +0200 |
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
>
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