It's worth mentioning that the pain of such upgrades is considerably reduced by the use of a package manager like GODI. It's hardly perfect, but it makes such things much easier.
y On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:36:32 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:02:39PM -0800, Jacques Garrigue wrote: > > From: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:53:07PM +0100, Damien Doligez wrote: > > > > Or you can wait a few weeks for 3.08.3. > > > > > > BTW, do 3.08.3 break binary compatibility with 3.08.2? > > > (as happened when upgrading from 3.08.1 to 3.08.2) > > > > Any bug fix in the compiler has a very high probability of breaking > > binary compatibility. This is due to the fact interface digests depend > > on the indices of internal identifiers, so that purely internal > > changes may break compatibility, eventhough the cmi format is left > > unchanged. > > It is reasonnable to assume that 3.08.3 will not be binary compatible. > > Notice that this is really not nice for a bugfix release, since this means we > have to rebuild all of the ocaml related packages on all arches, which may > take us month and such. Maybe we would be better off just backporting the > non-breaking fixes ? Maybe in future this situation could be somewhat > improved ? > > > By the way, due to a bug fix in the variance inference, it will also > > not be 100% source compatible, but I hope this has no impact on > > existing programs (as only few programs use variance). (I sincerely > > hope there were no unsound programs around...) > > Oh, well. ... > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
