On 06/05/2017 12:08 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> No problems with cryptokit for me, using 1.7.  I see from Mercurial
> commit-log that this doesn't build with older versions of OCaml.  It
> looks like this comes down to being willing to specify which version
> ranges of the OCaml releases we're supposed to work with.  How far back,
> at what price?

The primary issue here is ocaml removing type definitions including
‘uint32’ from ocaml 4.03 as described in [0, 1].

which is used in cryptokit, which brings up the question of not
embedding it in [2]

References
[0]
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591326

[1]
https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6517

[2]
https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/42/unbundle-cryptokit-sks-incompatible-with

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