[Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[Xavier Leroy]

To all OCaml users who track the CVS or are willing to beta-test:

We are progressing towards a release of OCaml 3.08, and at the same
time experimenting with a two-branch development model, one branch for
short-term bug fixes and the other for longer-term developments.

If this model turns out to work well, we hope it will make it easier
for users to benefit from bug fixes between major releases, and speed
up the release process.

Users who track the CVS sources from camlcvs.inria.fr are encouraged
to switch to the current release branch, which is labeled "release308".
This is the branch where we currently do bug fixes before release 3.08
and where we'll do post-release bug fixes if needed.  It is currently
more up-to date than the main branch, which is the development branch,
and will remain so for a couple of months at least.  To switch your
CVS checked-out sources to the release branch, just do

          cvs update -r release308

Users who are willing to beta-test the upcoming 3.08 release should
also get the sources from the "release308" branch of the CVS:

 cvs -d ":pserver:anoncvs@camlcvs.inria.fr:/caml" checkout -r release308 ocaml

Now is a very good time to test and report bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

- Xavier Leroy

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Re: [Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[skaller]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:41, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> To all OCaml users who track the CVS or are willing to beta-test:

OK, any hints on what things to look for?
Expected problem areas, performance changes,
cute new features, etc?

BTW: small suggestion. Is it possible to write the
summary of ./configure to a text file so it can be examined
later? Running make world.opt tends to scroll that 
information off the screen ..but it might be useful
to attach to any bug reports ..?

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Re: [Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[Xavier Leroy]

> OK, any hints on what things to look for?
> Expected problem areas, performance changes,
> cute new features, etc?

The change log (file "ocaml/Changes" in the CVS sources) is relatively
up-to-date.  Perhaps the biggest (internal) change is in the
representation of objects and compilation of classes, so if you have
object-heavy programs, that would be a good test.

- Xavier Leroy

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Re: [Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[Benjamin Geer]

Xavier Leroy wrote:
> Perhaps the biggest (internal) change is in the
> representation of objects and compilation of classes, so if you have
> object-heavy programs, that would be a good test.

CamlTemplate is object-heavy (though small); it works fine with the 
current OCaml CVS.

Ben

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Re: [Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[Markus Mottl]

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> We are progressing towards a release of OCaml 3.08, and at the same
> time experimenting with a two-branch development model, one branch for
> short-term bug fixes and the other for longer-term developments.

This is great news!

> If this model turns out to work well, we hope it will make it easier
> for users to benefit from bug fixes between major releases, and speed
> up the release process.

Indeed, I think that shorter release cycles will greatly improve the
whole development process.

> Users who track the CVS sources from camlcvs.inria.fr are encouraged
> to switch to the current release branch, which is labeled "release308".

Done.  So far everything seems to work smoothly.

> Now is a very good time to test and report bugs.

Let me add that I'm always impressed of the quality of the CVS-versions
so users should be encouraged to try it and thus help INRIA with testing.

My machine automatically checks out changes on an almost daily basis and
recompiles all libraries I need.  It happens extremely seldom (maybe
2-3 times a year) that something doesn't work with the CVS-version
that does with the stable version (usually it's the other way round),
and the team at INRIA is very responsive to bug reports.

Thanks for your efforts, and keep up the great work!

Best regards,
Markus

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Re: [Caml-list] CVS tracking and 3.08 testing

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 01.07.2004 06:41, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> Users who track the CVS sources from camlcvs.inria.fr are encouraged
> to switch to the current release branch, which is labeled "release308".
[...]
> Now is a very good time to test and report bugs.

Could you please consider PR1804/1900 that asks for the following 4 
lines to be added to the "install" target of the top-level Makefile:

http://nogin.org/patches/ocaml-3.07-wish1804.patch
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /caml/ocaml/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.184
diff -u -u -r1.184 Makefile
--- Makefile	2003/07/03 15:13:21	1.184
+++ Makefile	2003/10/29 10:11:35
@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@
  	cp toplevel/toplevellib.cma $(LIBDIR)/toplevellib.cma
  	cp expunge $(LIBDIR)/expunge$(EXE)
  	cp typing/outcometree.cmi typing/outcometree.mli $(LIBDIR)
+	cp typing/typecore.cmi typing/typecore.mli $(LIBDIR)
+	cp parsing/location.cmi parsing/location.mli $(LIBDIR)
+	cp parsing/longident.cmi parsing/longident.mli $(LIBDIR)
+	cp parsing/parsetree.cmi parsing/parsetree.mli $(LIBDIR)
  	cp toplevel/topstart.cmo $(LIBDIR)
  	cp toplevel/toploop.cmi toplevel/topdirs.cmi toplevel/topmain.cmi 
$(LIBDIR)
  	cd tools; $(MAKE) install

These files are needed in order to be able to build a custom Ocaml 
toploop and to be able to manipulate it successfuly.

Thank you!

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