From: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.04.0+beta1
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:46:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9013507F456@Remus.metastack.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E48ABE1-F29A-4F24-816A-636F57717335@inria.fr>
Damien Doligez wrote:
> > On 2016-08-11, at 18:28, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't it only ever break it for alpha/beta/rc releases, though? Might
> that be a price worth paying (next time)?
>
> Breaking beta releases is a very big deal: a broken beta is a beta that
> nobody will test. Moreover, OPAM does not implement the convention you are
> suggesting, so it would do more harm than good.
It doesn't break *your* beta release - it breaks other people's libraries and at a time at which you expect to be testing those libraries (exactly as happened from 3.07+2 -> 3.08.0 when the version format last changed). So for any given library/program, the worst you'd expect is that it reports broken during a beta (because something goes wrong with OCaml version number parsing) which then "magically" disappears when it's released. It's difficult to imagine present software which would somehow work when given 4.05.0~beta1 and then, all other things equal, stop working when given 4.05.0!
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-12 12:46 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
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 [this message]
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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