Re: [Caml-list] Immutable strings

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:54:57PM +0200, Alain Frisch wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 02:24 PM, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> >It will create confusion even with actively maintained code bases. What
> >could help here is very clear communication when the change will be the
> >standard behavior, and how the migration will take place.
> 
> It's a very different kind of criticism from your initial point
> about the decision of going into the current direction.  Point
> taken: the development team will need to communicate about the
> expected timeline and migrate path.  But note that 4.02 is not even
> out, and since the default behavior is the previous one, there is no
> hurry, and it's fine if people wait a few months before trying the
> new mode.   It doesn't seem crazy to wait for some early user
> feedback and synchronize with them before deciding on a more precise
> plan for the wider community. For instance, you feedback about
> porting ocamlnet is quite useful and the current discussion shows
> that several solutions compete and need further thought.  Without
> the new compiler switch, this discussion would not have taken place.

The problem we may* have is that we have to support OCaml back to ~
3.10 from the same code base.

Rich.

* I say `may' in that sentence because I've just ignored the warnings
so far -- having much bigger problems with armv7hl & aarch64 support
in 4.02 right now.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat