[ANN] Set up OCaml 2.0.0

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After a long time, it’s time to officially release setup-ocaml v2!
With the official caching functionality introduced from v2, setup is much faster. (Notable thing: we’ve spent some time with the GitHub team pulling Actions and the ecosystem itself to the level where it “actually works”.)
We hope you will enjoy this release with a lot of other functionalities that we really need to do real development, such as support for semver-style versioning (ocaml-compiler: 4.13.x).
And please report any bugs you encounter!
Thank you!

Added

2.0.0-alpha

  • Added support for 32 bits compiler variants.
  • Added semver-style version matching support.
  • Cache opam root (~/.opam on Unix, D:\.opam on Windows), opam download-cache (~/.opam/download-cache on Unix, D:\.opam\download-cache on Windows), and opam local switch (_opam).
  • If dune-cache enabled, install dune, automatically configure the dune cache for the most efficient use in CI (exports DUNE_CACHE=enabled, DUNE_CACHE_TRANSPORT=direct. TRANSPORT must be direct, not daemon, to speed up the opam install process and to support Windows: [Cache] Somehow it doesn't seem to hit the cache · Issue #4166 · ocaml/dune · GitHub, [Cache] Cache daemon is not Windows compatible · Issue #4167 · ocaml/dune · GitHub), and share the dune cache directory for each run.
  • If opam-pin is enabled, pin the local packages specified by opam-local-packages.
  • If opam-depext is enabled, install the system dependencies specified by opam-local-packages via depext
  • If opam-disable-sandboxing is enabled, sandboxing is disabled for all platforms except Windows. (Sandboxing is always disabled on the Windows runners due to limitations of opam.)
  • The profiling functionality allows us to check the duration of each group if debug mode is enabled. (Enabling debug logging - GitHub Docs)

2.0.0-beta

  • Added opam-repositories input to support multiple opam repositories.

2.0.0-beta10

  • Added “extends” experimentally.

Changed

2.0.0-alpha

  • The Windows runners install mingw64-i686-gcc-core and mingw64-i686-gcc-g++ for 32 bit compiler variant support.
  • Clean the log output by grouping some operations.
  • The compiler will be initialised in all platforms with an opam local switch to eliminate differences between platforms and prepare for full dependency caching in the future.
  • The macOS and Ubuntu runners install and cache opam from the GitHub release directly without the system package manager.
  • The macOS and Ubuntu runners install darcs and mercurial.
  • The Windows runners install mercurial.
  • Export OPAMCOLOR=always.
  • Export OPAMERRLOGLEN=0.
  • Export OPAMPRECISETRACKING=1.
  • Export OPAMSOLVERTIMEOUT=500.
  • Export OPAMROOT=D:\.opam on the Windows runners.
  • Export OPAMVERBOSE=true if the actions debug mode is enabled. (Enabling debug logging - GitHub Docs)
  • Export MSYS=winsymlinks:native for @actions/cache on the Windows runners.
  • Export HOME=%USERPROFILE% for opam on the Windows runners.

2.0.0-beta2

  • Changed to force an update of the opam cache if the week number is changed.

2.0.0-beta3

  • Use the week number to manage Cygwin cache.

2.0.0-beta4

  • Set OPAMSOLVERTIMEOUT to 1000 to avoid a timeout even if the opam solver is slow.
  • Increase cache hit ratio by loosening restore keys of opam cache.

2.0.0-beta5

  • Reduce GitHub API calls to avoid issues that can easily hit rate-limiting.

2.0.0-beta6

  • Unlock opam 2.1 on the Ubuntu and macOS runners.

2.0.0-beta8

  • Use 2.1 mode instead of 2.0 mode on the Ubuntu and macOS runners.

2.0.0-beta9

  • Increase the allowed artifact cache size from 5GB to 10GB.

2.0.0-beta10

  • Remove some hacks as --no-depexts is now used in CLI 2.0 mode from opam 2.1.2.

2.0.0-beta13

  • Do not install opam-depext if it’s not enabled.

2.0.0

  • Update default runtime to node16.

Removed

2.0.0-alpha

  • The ocaml-version input has been removed. Use the ocaml-compiler instead.
  • The simplified version specifying scheme (e.g. 4.12.0) support has been removed.

2.0.0-beta

  • The opam-repository input has been removed in order to add the opam-repositories input.

2.0.0-beta2

  • Removed the profiling functionality added in 2.0.0-alpha.

Fixed

2.0.0-alpha

  • Use the appropriate file system behavior parameters on the Windows runners. (R2L:1, R2R:1)
  • Add ppa: avsm/musl on 18.04 and older Ubuntu runners.
  • Pass --enable-shell-hook to opam init fixes a bug that must be run via opam exec in subsequent steps.
  • The Ubuntu runners install gcc-multilib, g++-multilib for ocaml-option-32bit.

2.0.0-beta3

  • Set repository priorities correctly for multiple repositories feature.
  • Lock the version of opam to be installed only to < 2.1 releases until opam 2.2 is released.

2.0.0-beta5

  • If no user-input version is found in the opam-repository, explicitly raise an error instead of implicitly breaking the workflow.
  • Retrieve the base compiler version from opam-repository to use the live released compiler version.

2.0.0-beta7

  • Return an empty array to avoid depext failure when depext flags are not passed.

2.0.0-beta11

  • Add support for more styles for the ocamlformat configuration in lint-fmt action.

2.0.0-beta12

  • Fallback to the version in which the assets exist if no assets exist in the latest opam release.
  • Instruct Cygwin setup to use “sys” symlinks during setup (partial workaround for bug with native symlinks in Cygwin setup - some depexts may still be affected)

2.0.0-beta13

  • Print a proper error if the version not found in the .ocamlformat file.
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