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[Pietro Cerutti]

On Jun 24 2019, 10:34 UTC, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> 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.

Thanks you!

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Pietro Cerutti