Comment author: @dra27

Note #465 is aimed at solving this (this GPR was approved - subject to changes discussed in it) at a developer meeting last November, but I haven't had time to rebase it yet).

I'm not sure that we can alter the format of the version returned, because there are probing scripts which depend on its format.

Note that can you already determine a lot of this from the output of ocamlc -config.

Re-classifying as a feature wish. @dra27: is #465 stalled completely, or do you plan to resurrect it?

@xavierleroy - on opam stuff for the next few months, and hoping finally to revisit #465, yes!

This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc.

This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc.

This feature request would require a substantial amount of work (depending on how it is designed), and it appears that no one is interested in working on it for now. Closing; let us know if there is interest in working on it, we can always reopen.

I agree - I think your new --config-var (#1430) in 4.08 dealt with the scripting side of this. The recent change in opam-repository to use the ocaml-option- packages also makes this "probing" of features slightly less unclear.

For the toplevel, it might be tempting to having a #config - but the main variants are mostly uninteresting in the toplevel (flambda and afl aren't relevant and no-naked-pointers, no-flat-float-array affect C the runtime, so it's not clear what displaying that in every toplevel adds)