[Ocaml-devel] OCaml 5.0.0 alpha 1 scratch build

For my sins I'm doing a scratch build of OCaml 5.0.0 alpha 1 here: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=91701007 Looking at this there are quite a few larger changes in packaging: - It seems as if this generates META files for stdlib libraries, whereas previously those were generated by ocaml-findlib. (This is a more sensible way to do things, but still a large packaging change from our point of view.) - It puts libraries like dynlink, unix etc into subdirectories, previously only threads was in a subdirectory. - Various extra unexpected files are packaged. See diff attached. I'm expecting this will break a lot of things. 5.0.0 also includes multicore support, and is not fully backwards compatible with all C extensions. I believe the main change will be for extensions which are relying on converting raw C pointers to OCaml pointers without wrapping/hiding them in a Custom value. An example of the deprecated behaviour is in ocaml-ancient which is a package I will likely drop. Some other useful links: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-0-first-normal-alpha-release/10216 https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/issues/21526 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/5.0/Changes Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org