Re: Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-07-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
FWIW looks like OCaml 4.11 beta 1 was released earlier this week. https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-4-11-first-beta-release/6042 So I will try a mass rebuild into a side tag soon, and see what the fallout is. I believe I've added all the new packages added recently to my list. I've no intent

Re: Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jerry James writes: > My experience is that the build dependencies in the opam files are of > high quality, but that test and documentation dependencies are often > omitted. We could add those manually, so that may not be a big deal. If you add them manually, maybe upstream would accept a pat

Re: Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-06-25 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 4:16 AM Dan Čermák wrote: > %generate_buildrequires could be used to parse the opam file from the > tarball and extract the dependent opam packages from the depends: > array. E.g. the following: I've been thinking along those lines as well. More automation would be great.

Re: Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-06-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:15:51PM +0200, Dan Čermák wrote: > "Richard W.M. Jones" writes: > > >> Maybe I should do COPR builds of all this so everybody can easily see > >> what I'm talking about? I did a total of 63 package builds in mock, > >> many of them simple rebuilds, so it will take a li

Re: Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-06-25 Thread Dan Čermák
"Richard W.M. Jones" writes: >> Maybe I should do COPR builds of all this so everybody can easily see >> what I'm talking about? I did a total of 63 package builds in mock, >> many of them simple rebuilds, so it will take a little time to get >> that going. Do we know yet what the timeframe is

Re: Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-06-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:39:24PM -0600, Jerry James wrote: > This message is mostly for Richard Jones, but I'm sending it to the > list so that others who maintain OCaml packages can weigh in if they > choose. I have BCCed a few of you that are affected by some > suggestions I make below. > > I

Preparing for ocaml 4.11

2020-06-24 Thread Jerry James
This message is mostly for Richard Jones, but I'm sending it to the list so that others who maintain OCaml packages can weigh in if they choose. I have BCCed a few of you that are affected by some suggestions I make below. I have spent the last several days doing mock builds to see if I can safel