Re: ocaml - how can we get more recent version of core-kernel and common ppx'es

2021-05-30 Thread Erik
I have now applied the patches locally and tested a handful of the updated packages, and things appear to be working fine for me. Thanks a lot for doing this! What is the process for getting these patches commited to master? Do we need someone to test that the patches didn't break any existing

Re: ocaml - how can we get more recent version of core-kernel and common ppx'es

2021-05-19 Thread er...@posteo.net
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

Re: ocaml - how can we get more recent version of core-kernel and common ppx'es

2021-05-18 Thread pukkamustard
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 n

ocaml - how can we get more recent version of core-kernel and common ppx'es

2021-05-18 Thread Erik
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