Is ocaml-asn1-combinators abandoned?

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Master is broken for a while, pull requests are not reviewed/merged. So calling out to the maintainers.

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Don’t you think it’s a bit of a hyperbole to call a project abandoned because a non essential PR to it has not been merged in 4 days ?

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There is also https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-asn1-combinators/pull/27, so it is not 4 days and non-essential error. Apparently it is also important for Mirage OS. And master is broken for quite a while.

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I think that being unable to build a project is quite a significant error. Especially considering that OPAM now installs the latest compiler by default AFAIK. It’s not that I’m blaming the maintainer or something, just noticing that this is a valid reason for concern.

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Pervasives is only deprecated in 4.08 nothing should prevent from building that package (unless the author enabled -warn-error on release, which I highly doubt).

Besides I still find it rather unpleasant for authors that people are calling projects abandonned when one can see the author has been working on improving it less than two months ago.

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Ah, yeah, indeed it worked. I think I had problems with building it recently, but not sure for what reason. I’m not that concerned now :wink:

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Well, the port to bigarray-compat is essential for move to the latest cstruct, which has some important features. Having 4.08 build is just nice to have.

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Ah, yeah, I couldn’t build it alongside with cstruct.5.0.0. Now I’m very concerned again.

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You probably noticed that there were bugs fixed within the last month, or so. If you didn’t, you should have.

It’s not even close to being abandoned – I’m just a bit lazy, and a bit dealing with other things. And a bit have its complete rewrite on my hands, that addresses about 5 years of experience with the approach, in which I need to tie a few loose ends and push it out.

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Well, I think it is possible to merge these PRs, make a new release, and push complete rewrite after, so the fixed version can be used right now, without waiting some indefinite amount of time.

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That’s up to the maintainers who went to the hard work of writing and releasing the original code. But I do know that seeing a title such as the topic of this post would just irritate and demotivate me as a maintainer. I encourage you to be more considerate in your post titles here, please.

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