I don't think it makes sense to have a separate brarch when we have so few contributions, and so few impacted packages
Le 12 septembre 2023 08:57:56 GMT+02:00, pukkamustard <pukkamust...@posteo.net> a écrit : > >Salut! > >Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> 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. >> >> I think that’s a great idea. :-) Any progress on this? >> > >There is #64249 (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64249) to which I just >submitted a v6. > >>> * Remove most ocaml4.07-* and ocaml4.09 packages >>> - We only want to keep the compiler around for bootstrapping purposes. >> >> Currently camlboot is used by ocaml-4.07-boot used by ocaml-4.07. But >> then version 4.09 and later and not bootstrapped; well they use the >> upstream bootstrap (which is boot/ocamlc and friends IIRC). >> >> Well, independently of this upgrade plan, the OCaml bootstrap could be >> the chain 4.07 -> 4.09 -> … and I do not know if 4.09 would be enough >> for 4.14. And if 4.14 would also be enough for 5. > >I don't know either and I don't think I will have time to look into this >soonish. > >I think placing the 4.07 and 4.09 compiler in (gnu packages ocaml-boot), >even if unused, seems reasonable. We should add some nice >comments/breadcrumbs for whoever looks into completing the chain in the >future. > >> That’s said, aside this bootstrapping consideration, I am in favor to >> remove 4.07 and 4.09 OCaml packages. > >Ack > >> Do we create the branch ocaml-team for doing this plan? > >Just asked a similar question in the cover for the v6 to >#64249. Basically I don't know how fast I/we will be able to look into >the other items in this list. Maybe it makes sense to just merge in to >master instead of having a too long-lived ocaml-team branch? Or set a >pre-defined time-to-live for the branch? What's the current modus >operandi for other teams? > >Cheers, >pukkamustard
