[opam-devel] [Caml-list] OPAM: retiring 3.12.1 testing?

[Stephen Dolan]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:
> Dear OCaml list,
>
> We are currently testing the following compiler versions on every pull request to OPAM;
>
> - OCaml 3.12.1
> - OCaml 4.00.1
> - OCaml 4.01.0
> - OCaml 4.02.0
>
> We will shortly have to test 4.02.1, and would also like to test trunk snapshots of the
> compiler as an "allowed failure".
>
> Running 6 compiler revisions per package puts quite a bit of stress on our Travis CI
> resources, and so it's probably time to retire OCaml 3.12.1 from the testing matrix.

Getting rid of 4.02.0 will probably ease more CI-stress than getting
rid of 3.12.1: as Gabriel points out, one of the few changes from
4.02.0 to 4.02.1 is to fix the atrocious compile times of 4.02.0.

Stephen