Re: pkg/55936: lang/ocaml : default safe string breaks certain builds

[Aleksey Arens <aza.sea.agenda%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55936; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Arens <aza.sea.agenda%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/55936: lang/ocaml : default safe string breaks certain builds
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:43:34 -0800

 Since the xentools has been fixed, the point is moot.  It's a bit
 surprising the xentools package didn't get corrected earlier,
 particularly given that the issue of Bytes vs Strings and default safe
 strings has been on agenda in the OCaml community for at least several
 years now.  I find your position on the issue to be reasonable.  I
 suppose the ticket could be closed at this point.
 
 On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 3:10 AM Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/55936; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: pkg/55936: lang/ocaml : default safe string breaks certain builds
 > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:08:53 +0100
 >
 >  I (as the maintainer of ocaml) strongly disagree with adding this option in
 >  any way, let alone as the default. Unsafe strings have been deprecated for
 >  quite a while now in ocaml, and upstream have had enough time to get their act
 >  together and fix their code (it's not rocket science). If a package that is
 >  dependent on ocaml does not compile without unsafe strings, patches (or
 >  preferably upgrades) should be applied to that package, not to ocaml as a
 >  whole.
 >
 >