On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:08:15AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'm in two minds about whether to add OCaml 4.02 to Fedora 21:
- The only significant change that we care about is full AArch64
support. Currently Fedora 21 uses an AArch64 backend that I
hastily backported from upstream before the upstream backend was
completely finished (which, to be fair, does appear to work).
- The upstream schedule is rather unfortunately misaligned with the
Fedora 21 schedule. 4.02+beta1 was released last month. More
betas/RCs are expected. But final release is going to be August
(ie. after F21 development freeze).
- There are quite a lot of bug fixes (something like 40+) which would
be a pain to cherry pick individually to F21. However none are
known to affect Fedora users.
- There are several new optimization steps in the native compiler,
which might be interesting (in good and bad senses of the word).
Anyway if anyone has any preferences either way, then follow up ..
After a bit more investigation, this has turned out to be a
smelly kettle of fish.
Upstream have unbundled labltk (Tk, *not* Gtk, user interface) and
camlp4, so those will now need to be packaged as separate SRPMs. I
might not bother with labltk.
I think I'll wait until after the F21/F22 branch to do all this.
Rich.
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