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Re: ocaml - how can we get more recent version of core-kernel and common
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Re: ocaml - how can we get more recent version of core-kernel and common ppx'es |
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Tue, 18 May 2021 20:58:37 +0000 |
Great, this is exactly what I was hoping to find! I had of course forgotten to
search the debbugs and in the devel mailing list there were only really old
threads about the 4.07 stuff.
Thanks for your work here, I will test your patches and let you know :)
Sent from my iPhone
> On 18 May 2021, at 22:38, pukkamustard <pukkamustard@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> There has been some work towards updating the OCaml packages in Guix (see
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47768).
>
> A lot of packages have been updated so that there is a now an updated ocaml-X
> package for a previously existing ocaml4.07-X package. This includes a lot of
> ppx'es. However not everything has been updated yet and there are still a few
> packages missing to be able to update ocaml-core-kernel. But maybe you could
> use the #47768 as a basis and update some packages towards ocaml-core-kernel?
>
> Help is also required in reviewing the patches. The series has become quite
> large and hard to review (42 patches). If you could try them out that would
> be great.
>
> -pukkamustard
>
>
> Erik <erikl@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Hi, I have a project that requires a more recent core-kernel and some of the
>> ppx'es (such as ppx_fields_conv).
>>
>> Being very new to guix I've managed to add/update packages for python and
>> ruby
>> stuff, but this ocaml.scm file is quite different. There's a lot going on
>> which
>> I'm guessing is related to complexities arising from the whole ppx transition
>> that happened in the ocaml ecosystem a few years ago, or perhaps just to the
>> somewhat unsynchronized way libraries move to new versions of the compiler
>> and
>> libs (just speculating here).
>>
>> Anyway afaict (with my limited guix-fu) I would either need to duplicate a
>> whole
>> lot of packages or somehow reorganize things to share definitions where it
>> makes
>> sense. Both those options would require some coordination with the people who
>> made the ocaml.scm infrastructure first, because clearly there are projects
>> out
>> there that need the current set of packages to work like they do now and I
>> don't
>> want to just post a huge patch that surprises these people.
>>
>> Can we get a thread going somewhere on adding a recent version of
>> ocaml-core-kernel (for the 4.11.1 ocaml package, possibly bumping that to
>> 4.11.2 in the process)?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Erik Lovlie
>