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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:31:38AM +0000, Dario Teixeira [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > But evidently the version that arrived on my computer with Debian isn't
> > that up-to-date. I have ocalm 4.01.0-5. How should I go about
> > replacing it with the new one; where to get the new one; other
>
> > questions of that nature?
>
> Note that the feature is in OCaml's SVN trunk, and will be part
> of the *next* official compiler release (4.03, probably).
>
>
>
> > Or is it likely to reach Debian in a few days anyway?
>
> It should reach Debian stable in 2017... ;-)
Considering that 4.02 is in experimental, rather than sid or testing,
you're probably right.
Well, I normally run testing, and current stacle isn't far from
current testing. I'm really avoiding systemd, will likely
upgrade to devuan's testing release one of these months. Maybe dual
boot with Debian stretch, just in case I still do need it.
>
> > Ah. 4.02.1-3 is probably the one I want, and It's already in
> > Debian experimental, marked as "experimental (rc-buggy)". I wonder if
> > "release-critical-buggy" is just what they say of every package in
> > "experimental" or if there's some special proble here. I suppose
> > I have to watch out for version skew with any other bits of ocaml I have lying
>
> > around...
>
> Neither 4.02.1 nor 4.02.2 support the feature you want.
I was briefly hopeful when I looked at the date of the release and
wondered if this was the last change that got in under the wire.
> If you
> really, really can't wait for an official release, then you'll
> have to install the 4.03.0+trunk from OPAM. However, I highly
> recommend you wait for the official release, as running a trunk
> compiler is fraught with complications and headaches, especially
> for a beginner.
That may just mean I'll be asking questions and maybe filing bug
reports. Is that putting an undue burden on anyone?
I'm a beginner with OCaml, not with computing, nor with programming
languages nor functional languages. I implemented Lisp in the 60's,
for example. I've been around for a while. But I'm still a beginner
with OCaml -- I have about one month's experience, when I entered a
video game contest and decided to do it in a language I had no
experience in. Lots of fun!
Uh... any guess how long to the next official release? Weeks? Years?
Probably not minutes or millennia.
-- hendrik