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 not everything has
been updated yet and there are still a few packages missing to be
able to update ocaml-core-kernel. But maybe you could use the
#47768 as a basis and update some packages towards
ocaml-core-kernel?
Help is also required in reviewing the patches. The series has
become quite large and hard to review (42 patches). If you could
try them out that would be great.
-pukkamustard
Erik <er...@posteo.net> writes:
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 to complexities arising from the whole
ppx transition
that happened in the ocaml ecosystem a few years ago, or perhaps
just to the
somewhat unsynchronized way libraries move to new versions of
the compiler and
libs (just speculating here).
Anyway afaict (with my limited guix-fu) I would either need to
duplicate a whole
lot of packages or somehow reorganize things to share
definitions where it makes
sense. Both those options would require some coordination with
the people who
made the ocaml.scm infrastructure first, because clearly there
are projects out
there that need the current set of packages to work like they do
now and I don't
want to just post a huge patch that surprises these people.
Can we get a thread going somewhere on adding a recent version
of
ocaml-core-kernel (for the 4.11.1 ocaml package, possibly
bumping that
to 4.11.2 in the process)?
Best regards,
Erik Lovlie
