On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:08:37AM -0700, Jerry James wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 4:39 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We're expecting that ocaml 4.12.0 will be released very soon - perhaps > > as soon as later this week - and I will do a mass rebuild of all the > > OCaml packages which will as a side effect fix this. > > Thanks for handling the rebuilds. I want to note that there be a few > dragons lurking in wait for the ocaml 4.12.0 release. I maintain some > packages that need to be updated for 4.12.0. The problematic one is > ocaml-ppxlib. It is currently on version 0.15.0. The latest upstream > version is 0.21.0. All versions > 0.15.0 require > ocaml-migrate-parsetree >= 2.0. The 2.x ocaml-migrate-parsetree > versions break ocaml-ppx-tools-versioned. There is ongoing effort to > move all ocaml-ppx-tools-versioned consumers over to ocaml-ppxlib, but > it isn't quite done. To avoid breaking Fedora packages, this is what > needs to be done, in approximate package build order: > > - ocaml-migrate-parsetree: 1.8.0 -> 2.1.0 > - ocaml-tyxml: apply this pull request to switch to ppxlib: > https://github.com/ocsigen/tyxml/pull/271 > - ocaml-base: 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1 > - ocaml-lwt: 5.3.0 -> 5.4.0 > - ocaml-bisect-ppx: apply this pull request to switch to ppxlib: > https://github.com/aantron/bisect_ppx/pull/327 > - ocaml-ppx-deriving: 5.1 -> 5.3 > - ocaml-ppxlib: 0.15.0 -> 0.21.0 > - ocaml-ppx-sexp-conv: 0.14.1 -> 0.14.2 > - ocaml-ppx-custom-printf: 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1 > - ocaml-ppx-fields-conv: 0.14.1 -> 0.14.2 > - ocaml-ppx-optcomp: 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1 > - ocaml-sedlex: 2.2 -> 2.3 > - Retire ocaml-ppx-tools-versioned > > There may be more breakage waiting to happen. I have not done test > builds for any of the above yet, because I've been waiting for the > ocaml-tyxml and ocaml-bisect-ppx situations to settle out. If they > don't release versions compatible with ocaml 4.12.0 by the time the > latter is released, we'll either have to apply those pull requests as > they are now, or delay introducing ocaml 4.12.0, or leave some of the > above packages in a broken state. This looks do-able TBH, although some work. I talked to octachron today and he said we can expect OCaml 4.12 this week or the next. I have blocked out a couple of days to deal with this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
