When a popular package with many reverse dependencies introduces breaking changes, what practical options exist for the community to manage the transition? An example will be illustrative: in the recent release of ppxlib 0.36, a change to the internal AST required PPX authors to use a different rep…

Breaking PPX API changes and the package ecosystem

yawaramin June 19, 2025, 1:40am 6

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