[ocaml-infra] ocaml-legacy into the ocaml/ github org

Anil Madhavapeddy anil at recoil.org
Fri Sep 16 11:47:02 BST 2016


I'd prefer to keep the repository with the more legacy name, in the hope that other operating systems receive contributions eventually for supporting them as well.  It's ironic that Windows is getting such comprehensive support for OPAM switching ahead of the more traditionally well supported platforms :-)

Anil

> On 16 Sep 2016, at 10:51, Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant at inria.fr> wrote:
> 
> Maybe with a different project name, like `ocaml-windows-legacy` to put forward the fact that it addresses Windows issues ?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:53 AM Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> David Allsopp has been working on getting many historical versions of OCaml compiling on Windows via an OPAM switch -- all the way back to 3.07 in fact!
> 
> If there are no objections, I would like to host https://github.com/metastack/ocaml-legacy under the ocaml/ GitHub organisation to assist with upstreaming the various OPAM compiler switches into mainline OPAM repository soon.
> 
> regards,
> Anil
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