Julien Lepiller writes: > Hi Guix! > > This patch series updates dune to 2.7.1. The first patch is unrelated, > but reduces the number of dependents of ocaml-4.07, which I'd like to > remove in the future, by building unison with 4.09. > > Then, 4 updates that are required, or they fail to build with the newer > dune. Since dune 2 removed jbuilder entirely, we need to get rid of > every use of the #:jbuild argument, which I do in the following patches. > > I add stdlib-shims, which is required for other updates later in the > series. I then update 6 more packages, that fail in their current > version with dune 2, but whose updated version work well with dune 1 > and 2. > > I add csexp, which is a dependency of dune-configurator 2, convert > compiler-libs and jane-street-headers to ocaml-4.07 only (so they don't > need to be updated for now, as that would create all sorts of issues). > The penultimate patch ensures we build all ocaml4.07- packages with > ocaml4.07-dune, which was not a problem before but... > > The last patch updates dune to 2.7.1, and keeps ocaml4.07-dune at its > current version, which causes problems when mixing the two, hence the > previous patch. > > The reason for preserving the version of ocaml4.07-dune is that many > dependents were created for jbuilder, so we'd need to change many of > them in order to update ocaml4.07-dune. > > In the future, I'd like to add ocaml 4.11, update bap and maybe some > other packages to use ocaml 4.09, and remove 4.07, eliminating dune 1 > completely. Wow, tremendous work. I look forward to going through these patches. Brett Gilio