From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E7E67FC18 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:52:49 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of adrien@notk.org) identity=pra; client-ip=91.121.71.147; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="adrien@notk.org"; x-sender="adrien@notk.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of adrien@notk.org designates 91.121.71.147 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=91.121.71.147; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="adrien@notk.org"; x-sender="adrien@notk.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@nautica.notk.org) identity=helo; client-ip=91.121.71.147; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="adrien@notk.org"; x-sender="postmaster@nautica.notk.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0A0BQDJO+JU/5NHeVtbgwaDYE/CXoJPAoEXQwEBAQEBAXyEDQEFGAtWEAsYAgIFEw4CAg8FGDExiBO3I5ZwAQEBAQEFAQEBAQEBHIEhiWuEbQeCaC6BFAWYbgGTDSKDbz2CdAEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0A0BQDJO+JU/5NHeVtbgwaDYE/CXoJPAoEXQwEBAQEBAXyEDQEFGAtWEAsYAgIFEw4CAg8FGDExiBO3I5ZwAQEBAQEFAQEBAQEBHIEhiWuEbQeCaC6BFAWYbgGTDSKDbz2CdAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,589,1418079600"; d="scan'208";a="122003553" Received: from nautica.notk.org ([91.121.71.147]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 16 Feb 2015 19:52:49 +0100 Received: by nautica.notk.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 6828DC009; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:52:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:52:48 +0100 From: Adrien Nader To: Anil Madhavapeddy Cc: Ocaml Mailing List , opam-devel Message-ID: <20150216185248.GA18316@notk.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OPAM: retiring 3.12.1 testing? Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > Dear OCaml list, > > We are currently testing the following compiler versions on every pull request to OPAM; > > - OCaml 3.12.1 > - OCaml 4.00.1 > - OCaml 4.01.0 > - OCaml 4.02.0 > > We will shortly have to test 4.02.1, and would also like to test trunk snapshots of the > compiler as an "allowed failure". > > Running 6 compiler revisions per package puts quite a bit of stress on our Travis CI > resources, and so it's probably time to retire OCaml 3.12.1 from the testing matrix. > > Before we do this, I'd like to get a sense for how many people still care about ensuring > that their packages work well on the 3.12.1 series, or if there are still distributions > for which this support matters. If there is still sufficient interest, we can continue > to support 3.12.1 for some time. For yypkg/win-builds I've done a quick survey of what's in Linux distributions. I was mainly interested in moving past 3.12.1 compatibility for my own code but found it undoable before the end of this year or maybe early next year. Ubuntu 12.04 has 3.12.1 and is still supported and widespread. 14.04 has 4.01.0 but isn't very old. Debian has a similar combination for its versions. I think 4.02.0 wasn't picked by linux distributions with long-term support (including RH if I'm not mistaken). 3.12.1 is really widespread and I think it has to be kept for a fairly long time. 4.00.0 is basically never used. 4.01.0 is widespread and will be widespread for some time. 4.02.0 is nowhere to be seen. I believe 4.02.0/1 and maybe 4.02.2 won't be picked up either (unless 4.03.0 takes close to two years to be released). I'd say: keep 3.12.1, 4.01.0, 4.02.whatever-is-the-most-recent (because that's what ocamlers use) and trunk. Dump the others (i.e. 4.00.1, 4.02.0). -- Adrien Nader