bug#38861: [WIP 1/1] gnu: Add ocaml-4.09.

[Brett Gilio]

Brett Gilio <address@hidden> writes:

> Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>
>> I tried to do that not so long ago, but failed because of two
>> packages: bap and another one I can't remember. The whole janestreet
>> stuff (core and ppx-*) needs to be re-imported: many dependencies
>> changed.
>>
>> I think we can have two versions of ocaml if some packages don't
>> support the latest. In that case, I would only duplicate packages that
>> are dependencies of these packages. In general, you can use a
>> procedure to recursively modify ocaml packages so they use the older
>> version. See package-with-ocaml4.02 that existed at some point.
>>
>
> Thanks for your help Julien. I am trying some things on my channel. Will
> report back here in a few days.

Development is occuring now on branch 'wip-ocaml4.09'. Closing.

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