Re: ocaml transition: ppx_deriving
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:11:52AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> On 16/10/2017 08:32, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > one of the current blockers for the ocaml transition is ppx_deriving.
> > The current version in sid (4.1) does not compile with ocaml 4.05 and
> > should probably be upgraded to 4.2. This version, however, has a new
> > dependency ppx_derivers [1,2] which AFAICS is not yet packaged in debian.
> > Is anybody working on this ? If not, is there a plan ? We could either
> > package ppx_derivers which will have to go through NEW, hence causing
> > a further delay, or try to patch up ppx_deriving 4.1 to make it compile for
> > now. Any opinions or ideas ?
>
> I think we should package ppx_derivers and ppx_deriving 4.2 directly.
> Concerning the delay, I think ppx_deriving and its rdeps can be temporarily
> removed from testing if they really delay the transition.
OK, I'll do that. For starters, ppx_derivers does not have a copyright
statement, neither github nor opam seem to care about that. We also
have to package ocaml-migrate-parsetree.
Ralf.
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