On 23 Nov 2017, at 15:42, Hannes Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/11/2017 12:00, Martin Lucina wrote: >> IMO should definitely test 4.05.0, given the number of changes required for >> 4.06.0, its relative newness, and current lack of support in mirage-xen. > > Ok, fair enough. We can test 4.04.2, 4.05 and 4.06. Once 4.07 is > released, should we then remove 4.04 -- i.e. try to have the three most > recent OCaml major releases supported?
Yes please don't skip OCaml versions :) We *may* need to support 4.04.2 for slightly longer than usual since 4.06 is a major breaking release. I'd keep the "last three major releases" as a guideline rather than a fast rule. >> 4. Ideally Datakit CI should also no longer test on the old compiler >> versions to prevent spurious failures, presumably the right thing will >> happen there due to the availability constraints automatically? >> >> My justification for point 2. is that if we're no longer testing on those >> compilers then you should not be able to install the package on them >> either. >> >> WDYT? > > I think this is a great plan, and haven't heard from anyone who needs > interoperation with older OCaml compilers. I concur. Don't hold back the project for the sake of compatibility. As the deployed user-base increases, they will signal for when long-term support is necessary. (On that note, if you are a user of a particular library in the OCaml ecosystem that you think has dropped support for an older version of OCaml too soon, please let us know :-) regards Anil _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
