Re: [MirageOS-devel] sexplib v0.9.0 breakage of MirageOS unikernels (xen & solo5)

[Rudi Grinberg <rudi.grinberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

> FWIW I have a 3) in the works with type-indexed codecs and support for layout 
> preserving updates. I'd like to use this for configuration files that you can 
> both edit manually and programmatically. The syntax is not fully compatible 
> with sexplib which IIRC has some ocaml specific stuff. It has first class 
> support for unicode (scalar value escapes) and it depends only on uutf. Of 
> course since I'm not into the ppx stuff so you won't get that sort of things.
While it's good that a more portable alternative to sexplib is being created,
it's a real shame we're not going to have compatibility between the types. Seems
like that would be mean the entire ecosystem would be partitioned by these 2
sexp representations.

I understand that this might be necessary and have no technical objections. But
it's important to point out this unfortunate consequence.

_______________________________________________
MirageOS-devel mailing list
MirageOS-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel