On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:07:32PM -0700, Jerry James wrote: > Richard, I see that the OCaml 4.12 release is not expected to happen > until next week, after the beta freeze: > > https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-4-12-0-first-release-candidate/7294 > > Some of my OCaml packages are currently not installable, due to the > dynlink hiccup, I think. Rather than enter beta freeze with them in > this state, I would like to rebuild them. I was thinking about > proceeding with the updates needed for OCaml 4.12, since I have to > build these packages anyway, and the updated versions also work with > OCaml 4.11. As a reminder, these are the updates: > > - ocaml-base: 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1 > - ocaml-migrate-parsetree: 1.8.0 -> 2.1.0 > - ocaml-ppxlib: 0.15.0 -> 0.22.0 > - ocaml-bisect-ppx: 2.5.0 -> 2.6.0 > - ocaml-tyxml: apply this pull request to switch to ppxlib: > https://github.com/ocsigen/tyxml/pull/271 > - ocaml-lwt: 5.3.0 -> 5.4.0 > - ocaml-ppx-deriving: 5.1 -> 5.2.1 > - ocaml-ppx-optcomp: 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1 > - ocaml-ppx-sexp-conv: 0.14.1 -> 0.14.2 > - ocaml-sedlex: 2.2 -> 2.3 > - ocaml-ppx-custom-printf: 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1 > - ocaml-ppx-fields-conv: 0.14.1 -> 0.14.2 > - Retire ocaml-ppx-tools-versioned > > along with a number of other package builds just to fix dependencies. > That would also simplify things for you when OCaml 4.12 is released, > as all of these updates would already be in place. What do you think? That sounds great. > Also, I would like to update ocaml-ocamlgraph to version 2.0.0 at some > point. The only Fedora consumers are frama-c and ocaml-dose3. The > current version of frama-c can already be built with either ocamlgraph > 1.x or 2.x. The version of ocaml-dose3 in Fedora (5.0.1) cannot be > built with ocamlgraph 2.x. However, upstream has moved here: > > https://gitlab.com/irill/dose3 > > and released a 6.x series that supports ocamlgraph 2.x. > > Unfortunately, there are issues with moving to version 6.x. First, > and easiest, the new versions depend on camlbz2 and parmap, neither of > which are in Fedora. I've put together spec files for those two and > can submit them for review if nobody else wants to do so. Second, > upstream removed support for RPM in this commit: > > https://gitlab.com/irill/dose3/-/commit/e656b5783f1fc5fd75e0e2716b0a40aca282ad72 > > I don't know why. The commit message does not give a reason, and this > change is not mentioned in the project changelog. I assume RPM > support is important for the Fedora build of ocaml-dose3. I don't > know what the best approach is to resolve this issue, but it is > blocking the ocamlgraph update. Any thoughts on the matter are > appreciated. This is weird, but while it will require a smallish change to our spec (like removing rpm-devel), I don't think it should affect anything else. Nothing in Fedora seems to need 'ocaml(Rpm)' or /usr/bin/rpmcheck. Thanks, 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
