On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:29:31 +0100 Laurence Tratt <lau...@tratt.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 10:43:29PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann
> wrote:
>
> Hello Christopher,
>
> > finally here's the update of OCaml to 4.08.1.
> [...]
> > * net/unison needed some help to avoid deprecated library
> > functions.
>
> Since other people might be affected by this, it looks like OCaml has
> changed the marshalling format or similar (again...), so Unison from
> -current is now incompatible with -stable. I doubt there's anything
> we can do about this except, perhaps, a) add a warning to the upgrade
> page b) maybe expand pkg/README to spell out the commands needed to
> install Unison via OPAM.
That's what I would recommend in pkg/README:
$ OPAMROOT=~/opam_unison
$ opam init --compiler 4.02.3
$ opam install unison
$ ${OPAMROOT}/4.02.3/bin/unison
Would you mind testing it ?
Christopher
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