Re: [MirageOS-devel] [ANN] mirage 3.2.0 released

[Joe <joe@xxxxxxx>]

On 09/24/2018 09:48 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2018, at 08:42, Hannes Mehnert <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * which since a week switched to opam 2.0, and thus you'll only see
> > updates if you upgraded your opam to 2.0 (you can do so by following the
> > instructions on https://opam.ocaml.org/blog/opam-2-0-0/ 
> > <https://opam.ocaml.org/blog/opam-2-0-0/>)
>
> And this is an important point.  We need to decide when to stop
> supporting opam1, since Mirage is of course rather dependent on
> uptodate packages from the repository.
>
> I'd suggest doing it sooner rather than later, since upstream opam
> has essentially frozen any non-stability updates to the 1.x branch.
> [..snip..]
> Does anyone have a compelling reason to keep using opam1 at
> this point?

I think it would be very nice if we waited until there is an actual 
release of opam2, and perhaps even a few weeks after that to give it 
time to spread to the various package manager and distributions.
I tried to write up my other arguments, but to be honest I just sounded 
like a bitter old conservative, so I won't.
I think my first one can stand on its own anyway. :-)


Joe

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