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From: David Allsopp <David DOT Allsopp AT cl DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
To: Andy Li <andy AT onthewings DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Any chance of updating the ocaml package?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:15:02 +0000
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On 28 Nov 2019, at 15:09, Andy Li <andy AT onthewings DOT 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.


David

> Best,
> Andy
> 
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