Re: migration of OCaml 3.10 into testing
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 12:43 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:30:16PM +1100, skaller wrote:
> > Felix causes problems for the simple reason it actually
> > runs regression tests as part of the build. If people
> > actually tested the code built, I suspect quite a few
> > more packages would be found to be broken.
>
> You suspect, but we are not sure about that.
"We" KNOW. The logic is simple: it builds on other
arches including x86, x86_64, and PPC, and the compiler
is a pure Ocaml program. QED. The bug is in Ocaml native
code compiler.
> Go, test code, and file
> appropriate bug reports.
It has been done. The Ocaml team will not fix it because
they don't have the relevant equipment.
> However, right now we need to remove felix to
> let a huge bunch of ocaml related packages enter testing. We won't wait
> just for felix.
>
> Besides, you had a lot of time to discuss this with the felix
> maintainer, and you have been pinged several times on this mailing list.
And responded every time.
> Sorry, but if we are at this point, it's your fault.
I did discuss it, and as I report
here all these bugs are in Ocaml, not Felix.
Knocking out perfectly good code from the 1st Tier processors
Ocaml supports, on which it works, is unreasonable.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
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