Le mercredi 08 octobre 2025 à 10:58 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > On Wed, 2025-10-08 at 10:41 +0200, Julien Puydt wrote: > > Ah, I forgot to answer about the whitelisting : unless they changed > > their mind, they are not interested in supporting non-native > > compilation, so even if it happens to work at the moment, I'm > > reluctant > > to start shipping packages on architectures which I know upstream > > doesn't care about: I don't feel I would be able to do anything by > > my > > own if some broke at some point. > > > > I might close this bug as a won't-fix eventually - keeping it open > > for > > now to make it clear I'm not against the idea per se. I reject it > > for > > some good reasons, but I'd like to be proven wrong. > > I have to admit that I don't understand why OCaml upstream is so > hostile > against other architectures. They have removed basically every > architecture > from native support except for x86_64, arm64, ppc64el, riscv64 and > s390x > and they also refusing to add new ones like loongarch64. > > Plus, they're making it hard to use the byte compiler. Really strange > attitude towards downstreams. But I guess I'll just ignore OCaml > stuff > for now.
I don't know if it's really hostility -- perhaps just missing the hands and hardware to cover as much ground as they'd like... J.Puydt
