Update the shipped version of ocaml by Cygwin

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I am not sure who maintains the OCaml packages for Cygwin, but the package provided by Cygwin itself is quite old:

Cygwin ocaml-source 4.04.2 OCaml yaakov.selkowitz@cygwin
Cygwin ocaml-debuginfo 4.04.2 Debug yaakov.selkowitz@cygwin
Cygwin ocaml-compiler-libs 4.04.2 OCaml yaakov.selkowitz@cygwin
Cygwin ocaml-camlp4 4.04.2 OCaml yaakov.selkowitz@cygwin
Cygwin ocaml 4.04.2 OCaml yaakov.selkowitz@cygwin
Cygwin emacs-ocaml 4.04.2 OCaml yaakov.selkowitz@cygwin

https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions

Maybe it makes sense to push the updates there? It’s not even 4.05!

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With cygwin, I suggest you to switch to ocaml for windows, which use the mingw toolchain for the compilation.

Cygwin provide a simple way to install the mingw libraries, and the ocaml compiler and opam packages are in a dedicated repo (ocaml 4.07 is available).

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Thanks, but I am aware of this repository. This is why, in fact, I asked why not to update the shipped bins with Cygwin itself.