Compatibility with OCaml 5.5

[thierry-martinez]

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[danielfl-iar]

Hi @thierry-martinez. The fork you created when working on this seems to have overwritten the old repo and since the fork does not contain any releases it's no longer possible to opam install any stdcompat < 20.

[thierry-martinez]

Oops, thank you for pointing this out, @danielfl-iar! I've mirrored all the releases from ocamllibs/stdcompat in the fork, so the broken URLs should now be fixed.

[shindere]

Many thanks for the impressive work and sorry for my delayed response, I completely missed this! I am wondering whether you want to keep the commit history as it currently is? My impression is that most of these 15 commits could be squashed into one, just to make sure a bisection wouldn't reach a commit that does not compile. Am I correct that currently some intermediary states of the PR do not compile, actuallly? I was also unsure about the commit "Check newer versions in `check-generated-files`", and the head commit of your branch should I think mention 5.5 rather than 5.6?

[thierry-martinez]

Sorry for the messy Git history! I've rebased it to clean it up. Each of the four commits should now work independently.

[thierry-martinez]

Thank you, @shindere, for your approval! Which merge method should we prefer: rebase, squash, merge commit?

[shindere]

This looks very nice to me, thanks. I just approved and, since all check pass I am now merging. Would you like me to release?

[thierry-martinez]

It would be great to make a release! Tell me if I can help. Thanks!

[shindere]

Oops sorry if I went too fast on this. Ijust kept the default, which I believe to be sane in the sense that the branch gets merged as-is, wich will let you delete it with `gib branch -d` if you so wish, as Git will be able ot notice that the branch got merged exactly as-is. Are you happy with this way of doing? If not I guess we can always revert, or even force-push backward. Or we can leave things as they are and do differently in the future.

[shindere]

thierry-martinez (2026/08/12 07:32 -0700):

thierry-martinez left a comment (ocamllibs/stdcompat#75) It would be great to make a release! Tell me if I can help. Thanks!

I'll give it a try and see how rusty I am at it. I'lllet you know in any case.