[opam-devel] deprecating opam 1.2.0

[Fabrice Le Fessant]

> `available: opam-version > "1.2.0"` would do what you say, though:
disallow package installation on earlier opams.

Since `to_pkg` will fail to install with `opam 1.2.0`, there is no problem
disallowing it for these versions


On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:52 PM Louis Gesbert <gesbert at antislash.info>
wrote:

> `opam-version:` describes the file format, and isn't supposed to change
> between patch versions;
> if encoutering a file with a newer minor version, earlier opam will still
> try to read it, but will silent warnings about the format (and complain
> that opam itself should be updated).
>
> `available: opam-version > "1.2.0"` would do what you say, though:
> disallow package installation on earlier opams.
>
> > - Fabrice Le Fessant, 06/07/2016 08:43 -
> > Why not set `opam-version` in the package to something greater than 1.2
> to
> > avoid the package from being used there ? Isn't it the goal of that
> field ?
> >
> > Deprecating a whole version probably still used by some users sounds
> quite
> > overkill just to fix one package.
> >
> > --Fabrice
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:29 AM Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at gazagnaire.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I think it is time to deprecate opam 1.2.0. What do you think?
> > >
> > > See https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/6888 for a recent
> > > issue: it doesn’t understand the `pinned` variable. This could be
> fixed by
> > > adding a rewriting layer between 1.2.2 and 1.2.0 and adding a
> redirection
> > > based on the version number (we already do that for opam 1.1) but
> that’s a
> > > lot of efforts for not much gains. So I’m in favour of simply not
> > > supporting 1.2.0 anymore.
> > >
> > > If you are still using 1.2.0 please complain now :-)
> > >
> > > Thomas
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