David Allsopp

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icon company University of Cambridge and @tarides icon location Cambridge, UK icon location SRE at University of Cambridge; Principal software engineer @tarides; @ocaml and @ocaml-opam core developer; general Windows {apolo,evange}list

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make sure a MAP_STACK signal stack gets unmapped

Closing in favour of https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/11731

Silence env hooks errors

We discussed this further today - the decision's not to go with this change. On the one hand, if something does go wrong with stock `opam`, the user is necessarily...

fix setting Lwt_process env on Windows

Hmm, apparently I accidentally allowed https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/11449 to be closed by the stale bot. The issue is that `CAML_INTERNALS` is causing more things to happen in the headers than are wanted....

Git-for-Windows `opam init` menu repeatedly asks the user to do the same

I have WIP (but not far enough done for a draft PR) on this related to #5832 - the issue is intended to ensure it doesn't get forgotten.

Cygwin depext doesn't report errors for non-existent packages

I'm regarding it as a bug because the requested external dependency was _not_ installed, yet opam continued, even though the reason for that is not strictly opam's fault! 🙂

Package variables in depexts

I think https://github.com/ocaml/opam/pull/5455 is related?

Environment revert not working correctly for Unix-like variables on Windows

I'm not sure how this slipped through with the `x-env-path-rewrite` changes - possibly it just wasn't noticeable because of #5837. The WIP I have so far observes a coding fault...

Forbid the + character in package name except if the package name ends with ++

The workaround syntax sounds good to me!

Replace the dependency on GNU patch by a strict dependency on git

I have a recollection that this wasn't a silver bullet on the Windows side _but_ I think that may have been before the patch rewriter was added. Regardless, this is...

opam behavior when disk is full

Might having a small permanent file created by opam init help in some cases - i.e. a small reservation of disk space? Obviously doesn't help if you have another active...