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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.04.0+beta1
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:37:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CFC2D68B-51D8-4274-8450-7B6EDDF8B345@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9013507F85A@Remus.metastack.local>


> On 2016-08-12, at 14:50, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> 
> If such a change were agreed, it would also be possible to alter opam lint (or at least opam-repository linting, once that's fully a "thing") to display a lint warning/info that things like ocaml {< "4.05"} probably mean "ocaml" {< "4.05~~"}. 

So every mention of an OCaml version number in every opam package description file will have to be suffixed with a ~. And that has to be done before we change the OCaml numbering scheme.

And I still don't know what's the upside, except for "that's how Debian does it"...

-- Damien


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-16 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09 13:15 Damien Doligez
2016-08-09 14:24 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2016-08-11 15:10   ` Damien Doligez
2016-08-11 16:28     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-12 10:47       ` Damien Doligez
2016-08-12 10:58         ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2016-08-12 12:09           ` Damien Doligez
2016-08-12 12:23             ` Daniel Bünzli
2016-08-12 12:25             ` Grégoire Henry
2016-08-12 12:50               ` David Allsopp
2016-08-16 12:37                 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2016-08-16 12:44                   ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-08-16 12:54                   ` David Allsopp
2016-08-26 14:00                     ` Louis Gesbert
2016-09-05  9:24                       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2016-08-12 12:46         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-12 14:56     ` [Caml-list] Debian's version-numbering convention Hendrik Boom
2016-08-12 15:57       ` David Allsopp
2016-08-12 16:06         ` Hendrik Boom
2016-08-09 16:06 ` [Caml-list] OCaml 4.04.0+beta1 Mohamed Iguernlala
2016-08-10 16:42   ` Mohamed Iguernlala
2016-08-10 16:46   ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2016-08-12 10:09 ` Fabrice Le Fessant

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