[opam-devel] opam 1.1.1 and aspcud 1.9

[David Allsopp]

> On 11 Dec 2014, at 01:41, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> 
> Opam build got broken between 1.1.1-1 (trusty) and 1.1.1-1build3 (utopic) because the dose version was upgraded from 3.1.3-7build1 to 3.2.2-2build1. It's very painful when everything types and compiles after an upgrade, but gets subtly broken :(

It is indeed 'funny' the feeling of betrayal which a fully-typing yet broken functional program gives :)

However, rather than introducing version constraints, wouldn't it be better to introduce a mandatory test step to the build process (one which could possibly be disabled when developing opam, but would definitely be enabled when it's being packaged or compiled by users)? Just a minimal program which fails with if Dose isn't behaving as expected (using this bug as the first test case)


David