dev meeting 20201217

Present at the meeting:

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

Current plan

• Sonja adds bucklescript support
• Nathan and Sonja get the ocaml-ci to pass

Meeting notes

Sonja has rewritten the implementation of standalone_run_as_ppx_rewriter. The new implementation, using the internal logic, has three advantages: 1. it gets rid of the former use of Ast_mapper from compiler-libs; 2. it unblocks the implementation of the feature granting access to the file input name; 3. with it, now it is possible to implement that ppxlib preserves the compiler version, also when using standalone_run_as_ppx_rewriter or run_as_ppx_rewriter. That's necessary to support bucklescript which will unblock the bisect_ppx port.

Apart from that, Nathan and Sonja have been working on getting the ocaml-ci to pass. That's necessary to have a reliable CI. It will also allow ppxlib to use ocamlformat.