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

[Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>]

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
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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.