svn commit: r505020 - in head: converters/ocaml-base64 converters/ocaml-jsonm databases/ocaml-sqlite3 devel/aifad devel/cil devel/menhir devel/ocaml-camljava devel/ocaml-camlp4 devel/ocaml-camlp4/f...

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 06:45:57PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:14:57AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >> New Revision: 505020
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/505020
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>   Update OCaml to version 4.05.0 (this is the last version where strings
> >>   are unsafe by default, which is the main motivation why it was picked,
> >>   but not the very latest one) and synchronize the rest of the stack and
> >>   dependent ports with it, particularly:
> > This concludes phase one.  We've accumulated way too much of technical
> > debt here to warrant splitting the update to the latest version (4.08.0)
> > to a separate commit once the dusts settles, which wouldn't take long,
> > I hope.  You can use this time to ensure that your code is ready for
> > immutable strings which are used by default on 4.06.0 and above, and/or
> > help to update various OCaml ports and "batteries" that were previously
> > blocked due to `lang/ocaml' port being too old.
> 
> Thank you, Alexey!
> 
> See below for one example of what this first step already enabled. :-)

Hey Gerald, yeah, I've seen the commit.

> (Hopefully the next step re ocaml is now not too hard?)

No, there's nothing hard about it, it's just I had to slow my things on
FreeBSD side down a bit due to increased workload at daily $job; I hope
to catch up soonish(tm) though, stay tuned. ;-)

./danfe