[Bug 218333] [exp-run] updating lang/ocaml 4.02 to 4.05.0

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218333

Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
             Status|In Progress                 |Closed

--- Comment #53 from Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to hannes from comment #52)
> I agree this issue should be closed, since OCaml in ports is now 4.05.1,
> and more recently OCaml 4.11.1 has been released.
Yeah I guess we can close it.  Shall updating to a more contemporary version
require another exp-run, we'd have to open another, dedicated PR anyways.

I'm more sure if I would go all the way to 4.11 or still stick for 4.07 for the
moment, due to this regression (still opened):

    https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/8776

> I'm curious about the status of OCaml packages in FreeBSD, I see that
> some libraries were imported to compile certain projects, but some of
> these ports have been removed since then (e.g. lang/opa astro/planets).
I intend to review and possibly revive most (useful) of them in coming
weeks/months.

> Now, upgrading the OCaml compiler nearly always leads to an exp-run
> which is costly and work-intensive to fix.
It was because of the considerable techdebt we gained in between 4.02 and4.05. 
I hope the next hop won't be so costly (albeit my procrastination may very well
contribute to it).

> Would you be interested in a cleanup run of the FreeBSD ports that
> remove all the dangling libraries?
No, please.

> Most users (and sysops) are interested in some OCaml binaries, most
> OCaml developers will need a recent OCaml compiler anyways, and then
> use opam (devel/ocaml-opam) to install dependent libraries.
Language-specific package managers are cancer (NPM is particularly bad example
of this) and do not align well with *nix distributions' own package managers. 
It probably makes sense in Windows as it lacks any decent package management,
but not in FreeBSD.

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