> On Jun 17, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 17 Jun 2019, at 20:35, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2019/06/17 21:20, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Mldonkey in difficult to adapt to the new 4.08.0 release of OCaml.
>>> Its build system has the option to build against a private build of
>>> OCaml 3.12 and a copy of lablgtk.
>>> I adapted the port to use this option and therefore get rid of the
>>> dependency on a system wide OCaml installation.
>>> Tested to build and start up on amd64.
>>> Not tested on bytecode-only archs.
>>>
>>> Is this the way to go? OK to commit?
>>> Is this port still in use?
>>>
>>> Christopher
>>
>> My vote would be for rm..
>
> I have changed my mind after thinking about it a bit. There have been
> _so_ many bugfixes in OCaml since 3.12 that it's probably unsafe to
> ship a 3.12 runtime with a modern release of OpenBSD.
>
> I'd vote for disabling the port (in the hope of a 4.08.0 future port) rather
> than regressing to an OCaml 3.12.1 build with those potential unsafe
> bugs baked into a statically linked binary.
>
> Anil
>
No objection to rm from me. :-)
.... Ken
