[Bug 272067] lang/ocaml: Update to 4.08.1

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272067

--- Comment #1 from Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> ---
As an information:

I'm aware of bug report updating ocaml to newer versions directly, but they
tend to be old ones, with stale patches, or spread across a bunch of PRs.

I tried starting my work from one of those but was unable to get anything
working. Either patches don't apply, or require major rework. In the other case
patches were spread on many PRs and I ended spending a lot of time trying to
apply them in the wrong order, with a lot of manual intervention required.

So I decided to start from scratch with a more incremental approach.

My plan for the future is to proceed incrementally. Once 4.08 is in the tree,
some adjustment work will be required on dependencies. Some require more work
to be updated, some others have gained new requirements not present in the
ports tree, so ports for new libraries need to be added.

Once that is done, jumping to ocaml 4.10 or newer should be easier.

I started from this very minor upgrade to try to kickstart this process.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.