Re: [Caml-list] [RFC] Remaining changes for cross-compilation support in OCaml

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:50:32PM +0100, Adrien Nader wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Roughly one year ago, late Wojciech Meyer and I started working on the
> > integration of a set of patches aimed at enabling the OCaml compiler to
> > be used for cross-compilation.
> > 
> > Some of the patches so far have caused issues to some people. The goal
> > of this RFC and email thread is to raise awareness of the upcoming work
> > and its implications and also to start getting feedback as early as
> > possible. The patches should be handled through the github interface
> > which Gabriel Scherer mentionned a few weeks ago.
> 
> Seeing as you want to use the github interface to submit patches I
> assume you also have a fully functioning branch on github that people
> could try. Would be nice to give the URL for that (or to make such a
> branch).

No, no public branch right now.
In the past, I have had to play catch up with the trunk.
I started with a set of patches, two months later I could start having
some integrated, meanwhile trunk had changed and most of the patches had
to be updated; by the time I could update the patches, trunk would have
moved again enough to require a new update and so on. Moreover, some
patches require a new approach and this is reason I sent this RFC.

I'm not yet sure how I will be pushing them. I think I will probably
push the WIP stuff on http://cgit.notk.org and mostly use github for the
code review stuff. That WIP stuff will also be pushed to and rebased
with no consideration for anyone: it will be a copy of my local repo, no
matter which state it is in.
(NB: rebases is very useful because bootstrapping creates new binaries
of several MBs)

In any case, I'll send a message to the list when the first code is
there and slightly usable.

-- 
Adrien Nader