[opam-devel] Opam 1.2 release

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

> On 23 Oct 2014, at 06:06, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> 
> Le jeudi 23 octobre 2014, 01:15:11 Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :
> > Yay! I've uploaded the hopefully last set of 1.1.99 Launchpad snaps against the 1.2 branch. If you tag the release, I'll promote the binary debs to 1.2.0 for the release announcement.
> >
> > Remind me what the plan is for switching opam-repository over again? Will users be immediately be able to submit 1.2 packages and expect the rewrite scripts to be active?
>  
> Yes, this is already in place: 1.1 users should have been redirected to http://opam.ocaml.org/1.1/ , which is dynamically rewritten from the main repo (for packages declared with opam-version >=1.2 only).
>  

And when they upgrade to 1.2 they are redirected again to the master branch?

Anil



> I also just merged https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/2804 , which applies the travis tests on the submitted package as is on opam 1.2 and on the rewritten repo for opam 1.1, so that any 1.2 bugs, 1.1 incompatibilities OR failures in the rewrite script can be caught at that stage. This should make it quite safe to accept 1.2 packages once they pass the travis tests.
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> >
> > -anil
> >
> > On 22 Oct 2014, at 08:31, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> >
> > > After a very long time maturing, 1.2.0 should finally be going out !
> > >
> > > Say it now if you encoutered any potentially blocking bugs.
> > >
> > > So, unless there is any big surprise, expect RC4 at
> > > https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/tag/1.2.0-rc4
> > > to be promoted to 1.2.0 tonight.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Louis
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