Re: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.01.0 RC1

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

On 2 Sep 2013, at 15:23, Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> wrote:

> The release of OCaml version 4.01.0 is imminent.  We have
> created a release candidate for your testing pleasure.  Please
> download the sources, compile, install, and test your favourite
> software with it (or try it with OPAM).  Then let me know
> whether it works for you.

For the OPAM users among you, I've added a 4.01.0 compiler switch
which will track the RC releases, and eventually become the official
release when it's out.

$ opam update
$ opam switch 4.01.0
$ eval `opam config env`
# ???
# profit

I've been running a full regression test of the entire OPAM database
on a variety of architectures and triaging the results.  If anyone
else is interested in helping submit patches to fix issues, then
please see:
https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/issues/1029

Note that the above link is a bit raw, since it also includes failures
from bugs in 4.00.1 packages too.  We've just been fixing everything
we can spot in preparation for testing the forthcoming OPAM 1.1 beta
on as stable a package database as possible.  I'm preparing a blog
post describing the most common failures we've seen to help package
authors avoid them in the future (warnings-as-errors, I'm looking at
you!)

cheers,
Anil