[new release] vcs (5 packages) (0.0.9)

[mbarbin]

This is the initial release for 5 packages providing a type-safe and direct-style API to programmatically perform Git operations. More information at https://github.com/mbarbin/vcs. Short synopsis below:

Synopsis

vcs the user facing library for the system, with reduced dependencies.

vcs-git-provider a helper library for building providers for the vcs library.

vcs-git-blocking a provider for the vcs library built with OCam's Stdlib and offering blocking calls to git.

vcs-git-eio a provider for the vcs library built atop Eio for non blocking calls to git.

vcs-base an extension of Vcs for base users.

[mbarbin]

A feedback from the CI:

• Warning in vcs-base.0.0.9: Possible name collision with package 'ojs-base'

Is it safe to ignore? I think the name are sufficiently different to avoid mixing one for the other.

Unrelated, but noting for next-step: in retrospect I want to check whether the non-eio packages of vcs are compatible with ocaml 4.14. I plan on looking into it before enabling for review. cancel that - I realized there's too many dependencies committed to > 5.1 (e.g. ppx_sexp_conv). This would require more thoughts, so I will not pursue this route for the initialize release.

[mbarbin]

In light of recent discussions on the discuss forum about memory representation guarantees and Obj.magic, I will withdraw my submission for now, while I am investigating an alternative provider implementation that can be type safe. (provider being a dependency of vcs).