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 BE9077F890 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:37:11 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of anil@recoil.org) identity=pra; client-ip=89.16.177.154; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="anil@recoil.org"; x-sender="anil@recoil.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of anil@recoil.org) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=89.16.177.154; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="anil@recoil.org"; x-sender="anil@recoil.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@dark.recoil.org) identity=helo; client-ip=89.16.177.154; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="anil@recoil.org"; x-sender="postmaster@dark.recoil.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiAEAH+fMlNZELGanGdsb2JhbABZg0GrJ5gmgTAOAQEBAQEIFAk8giUBAQEDATo/BQsLRlcGE4dxDM9OF44+MweDJIEUBJhNgTOScIE+PQ X-IPAS-Result: AiAEAH+fMlNZELGanGdsb2JhbABZg0GrJ5gmgTAOAQEBAQEIFAk8giUBAQEDATo/BQsLRlcGE4dxDM9OF44+MweDJIEUBJhNgTOScIE+PQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,734,1389740400"; d="scan'208";a="64795969" Received: from recoil.dh.bytemark.co.uk (HELO dark.recoil.org) ([89.16.177.154]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 26 Mar 2014 10:37:05 +0100 Received: (qmail 2404 invoked by uid 634); 26 Mar 2014 09:37:04 -0000 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Check-By: dark.recoil.org Received: from cpc7-cmbg14-2-0-cust238.5-4.cable.virginm.net (HELO [192.168.1.110]) (86.30.244.239) (smtp-auth username remote@recoil.org, mechanism cram-md5) by dark.recoil.org (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:37:04 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) From: Anil Madhavapeddy In-Reply-To: <2026824.u9EsF9KS0J@agaric> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:37:02 +0000 Cc: platform@lists.ocaml.org, caml-list@inria.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8A99DF80-185B-4C74-9BA9-5FF0D7C994F1@recoil.org> References: <53329725.90602@cea.fr> <2026824.u9EsF9KS0J@agaric> To: Louis Gesbert X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on dark.recoil.org Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ocaml-platform] [ANN] Experiment: OCaml patch review on github.com/ocaml/ocaml On 26 Mar 2014, at 09:12, Louis Gesbert wrote: > Thanks Anil ! >=20 >> It is awfully useful. I was trying to setup an OPAM repository for simpl= ifying the review of PR#22, >> but you did it for me and all the others, thank you. >>=20 >> I'm just wondering if it is wise to add all these switches to the defaul= t OPAM repository. For >> casual ocaml user the useful switches are lost among all these PR. >>=20 >> Perhaps the default possible switches can be reduced to the last releas= es (for people that work on >> project that must support old version of ocaml) and to the beta and trun= k for people that are >> curious of the accepted new features. >=20 > That's why in OPAM 1.1.1 we changed `opam switch list` to only display th= e default compilers, and you need to add `--all` to see all existing compil= er descriptions. I think it's enough to address your concern. >=20 > But that doesn't prevent a specific repo of course. I figured that for the course of Gabriel's experiment, we might as well kee= p it as simple as possible. The only churn that casual users will see is a= slightly more verbose 'opam update' as the switches come and go. If it transpires that the full force of Mantis bugs move over to a system l= ike this in the future, then I agree that we should maintain a separate rem= ote instead. -anil