First alpha for OCaml 5.5.0#29462
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Explicitly installing compiler-cloning.disabled prevents the Relocatable OCaml from using or being used as caches. The compiler in such switches is always built from sources.
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gentle ping? |
| license: "CC0-1.0+" | ||
| homepage: "https://opam.ocaml.org" | ||
| bug-reports: "https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/issues" | ||
| flags: avoid-version |
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that's to make enabled the default, right?
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enabled would normally be default anyway (since enabled > disabled) but the flag means it’s also selected if doing lowerbounds solving
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| # This is OCaml 5.5.0 | ||
| "ocaml" {= "5.5.0" & post} | ||
| "compiler-cloning" {= "disabled"} |
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what's the reason for this?
not blocking, just want to know for understanding this and future PRs
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The trunk compiler doesn’t support being relocated because it’s pinned (the build-id rules it out as there’s no checksum in the url), and this just makes it explicit.
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ah right 5.5 is for the 5.5 branch…
thanks
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The first commit adds the three packages for the first alpha release of OCaml 5.5.0 .
The second and third commit contributed by @dra27 adds support for cloning compiler switch (controlled by a new meta-package
compiler-cloning).