[ANN] Lwt.6.0.0 release (direct-style, tracing)

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Version 6.0.0 of OCaml has been released through opam! This new version of Lwt brings the following notable additions:

  • Lwt_direct: a package/library for using Lwt in direct-style. (Contribution from @c-cube)
  • Lwt_runtime_events: a package/library for emmitting runtime-events.

Check the release notes for a full changelog), including removal of some deprecated values.

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Thank you very much Raphael.

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I looked for user-facing documentation on Lwt_direct and did not find much. In particular, the Lwt manual appears to be stuck on 5.5.0 for now (and the opam packages do not come with documentation on say lwt_direct 6.0.0 (latest) · OCaml Package ). What is the plan for non-expert users to learn how to use the new direct-style approach?

Edit: for now I suppose the documentation is to be found directly (no pun intended) in lwt_direct.mli, which is well-commented.

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oh thanks for letting me know

the wiki update for manual requires manual intervention and hasn’t been updated in a while. beyond the API documentation, other parts need to be rewritten as well. i’ll put a notice on there that the documentation is generated on ocaml.org

it seems that the ocaml.org documentation failed with some unrelated error, i’ve opened an issue on the ocaml.org bug tracker