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From: Edwin Torok <edvin.torok@citrix.com>
To: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>,
	"dave@recoil.org" <dave@recoil.org>,  "wl@xen.org" <wl@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] tools/ocaml/xenstored: simplify code
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:28:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbb2742191e9c1303fdfd95feef4d829ecf33a0d.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1597668966374.91968@citrix.com>

On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 14:56 +0200, Christian Lindig wrote:
> This all looks good - I left a small comment on one of the patches
> and I agree that this needs testing. I also wonder about
> compatibility with earlier OCaml releases that we support but I see
> no real obstacles.
> 

I've developed the series using OCaml 4.08.1. I think the newest
feature I used was Map.update (OCaml 4.06, nearly 3 years ago).
Looking through https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions I'm not
sure if we can require more than 4.05 though.
The README in Xen doesn't specify a minimum version, but configure
checks for >=4.02.

I can try to backport my series to OCaml 4.05 (to use Map.find_opt
instead of Map.update) and update the configure check to require 4.05.
It would be possible to backport even further to 4.02 by introducing
additional inefficiencies (Map.mem + Map.find would traverse the map
twice, and Map.find on its own would raise an exception on Not found,
which is more costly than returning None in Map.find_opt), I'd avoid
doing that.

Xen's CI from automation might need some updates to use latest stable
versions:
* Fedora 29 is EOL, should use at least Fedora 31
* Debian Jessie is EOL. Stretch is present, but Buster is missing

Best regards,
--Edwin

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-18  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-14 22:11 [PATCH v1 0/6] tools/ocaml/xenstored: simplify code Edwin Török
2020-08-17 10:12 ` Christian Lindig
2020-08-17 12:56 ` Christian Lindig
2020-08-18  7:28   ` Edwin Torok [this message]
2020-08-18  9:25     ` Christian Lindig
2020-08-18 12:40       ` Andrew Cooper
2020-08-27  9:41         ` Wei Liu
2020-08-27 10:11           ` Edwin Torok

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