[ANN] ReScript 9.1.4 release

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Hi all,

ReScript 9.1.4 is released, this is a minor release, it ships several bug fixes and has some
low risk utility features, changes are listed as below:

Build

  • #5167 add dump subcommand so that
rescript dump path/to/file.cmi

Will dump the interface to a readable output, note this is integrated into the build system that the build will try to build it if it is not already there

  • clean will clean its dependency by default.
    subcommand clean -with-deps, -with-deps is not needed any more
  • hide most bsc options, officially supported bsc flags (this is not a breaking change, those internal options are still there but subject to removal in the future)
Usage: bsc <options> <files>
Options are:
Options:
  -w                        <list>  Enable or disable warnings according to <list>:
                            +<spec>   enable warnings in <spec>
                            -<spec>   disable warnings in <spec>
                            @<spec>   enable warnings in <spec> and treat them as errors
                            <spec> can be:
                            <num>             a single warning number
                            <num1>..<num2>    a range of consecutive warning numbers
                            default setting is +a-4-9-20-40-41-42-50-61-102
  -bs-g                     Debug mode
  -bs-D                     Define conditional variable e.g, -D DEBUG=true
  -e                        (experimental) set the string to be evaluated in ReScript syntax
  -v                        Print compiler version and location of standard library and exit
  -version                  Print version and exit
  -warn-help                Show description of warning numbers
  -warn-error               <list>  Enable or disable error status for warnings according
                            to <list>.  See option -w for the syntax of <list>.
                            Default setting is -a+5+6+101+109

Syntax

  • #432 bad error message for unterminated quote

Compiler

  • #5165 bad error message for uncurried type mistmatch
  • #5169 fix a code gen issue with user defined None
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On my CI I need to do rescript build -with-deps to build successfully. Can at some point this also be reduced to rescript build?

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Agreed, I realized this today too when having build issues, -with-deps should be the default indeed and a -without-deps option for cases where we don’t want it.

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That’s the expected behavior, do you have a small reproducible repo

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I don’t really know why it doesn’t work on a CI. But on our github actions and vercel (two different CI’s) it’s necessary otherwise it doesn’t build correctly. If I blow away my node_modules and lib directory on my computer rescript build works fine.

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i guess it’s because CI messed up with time stamps

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Ah yes I can imagine it has to do with caching!

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This happened for me so often that I just always do a -with-deps build. My issue is any yarn install will wipe over compiled Rescript code in node-modules.

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I was a little puzzled why dependabot was not trying to upgrade from 9.0.2 to 9.1.x in my repo. I realize now that dependabot doesn’t know that the package has been renamed. This might be indirectly slowing upgrades.

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Indeed this is an issue, do you know any way to improve the situation?

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I don’t have any great ideas. If you published rescript package for 9.0.x, I would modify my project to reference rescript instead of bs-platform. I don’t know if it’s worth diverting your limited time to do that.

Update: dependabot rejected this as a feature that they don’t want to inplement. Interestingly, renovatebot has been working on this feature for a while, and it may be merged in a while: feat: replace deprecated dependencies with their replacements by JamieMagee · Pull Request #5558 · renovatebot/renovate · GitHub.