Any chance of updating the ocaml package?

[Andy Li]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:15 PM David Allsopp
<David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 28 Nov 2019, at 15:09, Andy Li <andy@onthewings.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The ocaml package is a bit dated.
> > The currently packaged version is 4.04.2, released Jun 23, 2017.
> > The latest ocaml version is 4.09.0, released Sep 18, 2019.
> > It would be great to have it updated.
> >
>
> There’s a problem which needs to be fixed in flexdll which prevents OCaml working properly on Cygwin64 at the moment. When we’ve fixed that, it’ll be possible to update the OCaml package. In the meantime, on Cygwin32, opam works to provide the more recent versions.

Thanks for the info!
I would like to package Dune. Its latest version requires at least ocaml 4.06.
Looking forward to the eventual package update.

Best,
Andy

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