The OCaml team has the pleasure of celebrating the birthday of Inge Lehmann by announcing the release of OCaml version 5.2.0. Some of the highlights in OCaml 5.2.0 are: Re-introduced GC compaction GC compaction can now be manually triggered by calling Gc.compact () manually. This is expected …

Thanks for all your work on the release! Very excited by Dynarray, and local open in types which I’ve been waiting for for a while. And TSan of course, but I’m biased here.

Really excited about the relentless improvement in OCaml. [image] octachron: Project-wide occurence metadata support for developer tools When compiling a module with the -bin-annot and -bin-annot-occurrences flags, the compiler stores in the .cmt file an index of all occurences of values, ty…

[image] sid: Can anybody tell me if I can use occurences with ocaml-lsp ? How can I use this ? Does this have dune integration ? Hi @sid , now that OCaml 5.2 is here we are working hard to release versions of the involved tools that enable developers to use the feature. Merlin and LSP should b…

Looking at the history there is no usual packager, so it might be you if you’re so inclined. Brew doesn’t have the same maintainer structure as e.g. Debian has.

Ok, it’s WIP: ocaml 5.2.0 by XVilka · Pull Request #172795 · Homebrew/homebrew-core · GitHub

Ok, it’s merged now. The only problematic remains hyperkit, of which I have exactly zero knowledge. So if anyone knows who would want to fix it in macOS/Homebrew, please ping them. Apparently, it was broken even before OCaml 5.2.0: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.3.2/bi…

OCaml 5.2.0 released

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XVilka May 22, 2024, 1:28pm 6

Who usually packages OCaml for Homebrew? Seems it there is no activity to update it.

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