Please pick the version you prefer for Coq 8.20 in Coq Platform 2025.01

[MSoegtropIMC]

The Coq team released Coq 8.20.0 on September 3rd, 2024.
The corresponding Coq Platform release 2025.01 should be released before Jan 31st, 2025.
It can be delayed in case of difficulties until Feb 28th, 2025, but this should be an exception.

This issue is to inform you that the opam package we are currently testing in Coq Platform CI works fine with Coq 8.20.0.

Coq Platform CI is currently testing opam package coq-coqprime-generator.1.1.1
from official repository https://coq.inria.fr/opam/released/packages/coq-coqprime-generator/coq-coqprime-generator.1.1.1/opam.

In case this is the version you want to see in Coq Platform, there is nothing to do for you - please just close this issue.

In case you would prefer to see an updated or an older version in the upcoming Coq Platform 2025.01, please inform us as soon as possible and before Dec 31st, 2024!

The working branch of Coq Platform, can be found here main.
It contains package pick ~8.20~2025.01 which already supports Coq version 8.20.0 and contains already working (possibly patched / commit pinned) Coq Platform packages.

In case you want to select a different version, please don't close this issue, even after creating the new tag and/or opam package.
We will close the issue after updating Coq Platform.
This is a measure of 'double book keeping' in order to avoid that we ship the wrong version.

In any case, Coq Platform won't be released before this issue is closed!

Thanks!

P.S.: this issue has been created automatically based on CI status.

CC: coq/platform#449

[MSoegtropIMC]

@thery : I just wanted to ask if this is correct. The package for coq-prime-generator seems to be really old. First it is version 1.1.1 but there is also a tag 1.2.0. Besides the opam package for coq-prime-generator.1.1.1 actually points to:

https://github.com/thery/coqprime/archive/v8.14.1.tar.gz

I think there was some change in tag handling policy which lead to this confusion. Unless you are sure that this is all as it should be, I would ask you to reopen this ticket and review things then.

[thery]

@MSoegtropIMC apparently there is an issue with the generator not working with recent version of ocaml (#82). I have tried to fix it with a new opam version (#3295)

[MSoegtropIMC]

Thanks for the heads up!

[MSoegtropIMC]

@thery : unfortunately I can't take 1.1.2 since it requires OCaml 5.0. Coq Platform is still OCaml 4.X (for performance reasons). Do you know if this is a hard requirement or if one could make the package OCaml 4.X and 5.X compatible?

I plan to tag Thursday or Friday this week, so time is a bit tight. If you need help with opam or whatever, please let me know.

[thery]

@MSoegtropIMC I did it only for the generator that clearly did not compile under Ocaml 5. Still I guess it should
work also with 4.X I think. My problem is that I don't know how to test it.
If I just relax this constraint on the opam package, will the CI perform the proper tests?

[MSoegtropIMC]

I will test it and report here.

[MSoegtropIMC]

@thery : I set the lower bound to OCaml to 4.14.2 (what I tested) and this works. I will update the opam package and Coq Platform to 1.1.2.