[opam-devel] Leaving 3.12.x support behind

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

I would follow Core. Staying pinned on an older version doesn't seem useful for a new package such as yours.

-anil

On 17 Mar 2013, at 11:10, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't need a feature, but the lattest versions of Core require 4.00. And one of the API changes affects my package, so to support newer versions of Core I have to go to 4.00.  I'm ok with this, I'm just trying to make sure it's the right choice.
> 
> Den 17 mar 2013 17:04 skrev "Roberto Di Cosmo" <roberto at dicosmo.org>:
> 3.12.x is still a fairly recent version of OCaml... what
> kind of new featurs do you need from 4.00 in your changes?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:52:51AM -0400, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
> > I have a situation where the interface to Async has changed between
> > 108.08.00 and 109.13.00.  It is a simple change, but by making the
> > change I am giving up support for Ocaml 3.12.x, as far as I can tell.
> > Is this the accepted direction for opam packages?
> >
> > /Malcolm
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