dev meeting 20201015

Present at the meeting:

• Sonja Heinze (@pitag-ha)
• Carl Eastlund (@ceastlund)
• Nathan Rebours (@NathanReb)

Current plan

• Sonja finishes the first Astlib implementation
• Sonja finishes the js_of_ocaml and bisect_ppx ppxlib port
• Carl finishes the ppx_import ppxlib port
• Carl finishes the omp 4.12 compat PR
• Nathan adds the required features for bucklescript compat of the as_ppx driver
• Nathan prepares a fully 4.12 compatible branch of ppxlib

Meeting notes

Sonja worked kept on working on the js_of_ocaml port. It should be almost ready, the last issue is related to Location.input_name which isn't exposed in ppxlib but using locations in the AST should work out fine. She also worked on the bisect_ppx port and discovered that it relies on reason which depends on omp1. We need to clarify with the maintainers if bisect_ppx actually needs reason or not but if it does we might have to push the reason port to ppxlib at the top of the priority list.

Carl hasn't had time to work on ppx this week.

Nathan finished the ppxlib.0.18.0 release and it is now available. He also started working on preserving the version between the input and output ASTs when the input to the driver is a marshalled AST. This will allow writing bucklescript compatible drivers and help move forward on the bisect_ppx port.

Carl hasn't had time to work on ppxlib this week.