Transfer to OCamlPro

[lefessan]

OCamlPro is going to do the maintenance of this package, in particular to focus on compatibility with OCaml 5.
I create this issue to discuss and monitor the transfer of the repository to OCamlPro.

@UnixJunkie I have removed the two repositories (mine and OCamlPro's one) to ease the transfer.

[UnixJunkie]

Github tells me:
lefessan already has a repository in the UnixJunkie/ocaml-ancient network

And, I am not allowed to create a repository in OCamlPro so I cannot transfer to them.

[UnixJunkie]

Let's make this simpler, since github's interface is so shitty:

• fork this repository wherever you want
• check the issues and PR were properly replicated
• then notify me, I will archive this repository

[UnixJunkie]

Before archiving this one, I will try to point in some way to the new one you point me to.

[lefessan]

I don't think that issues are copied on fork. I have just deleted by repository, as all branches had been merged.

[UnixJunkie]

I could request the transfer to you just now.

[lefessan]

Thanks a lot, I have transferred it to OCamlPro !
By the way, are you actually using this library in one of your projects ? Do you know who is using it ?

[UnixJunkie]

I am not using it because I failed to update/port it to recent OCaml versions.
But, I had some hopes it could be used as a shared memory backend for multi-process parallel calculations.
This was tracked in #1.
If I had managed to do that, I might have used ancient as the SHM backend inside of parany.
https://github.com/UnixJunkie/parany
In my experience, the shm in ocaml-5 is bad for parallel calculations; you cannot have all cores at 100%
which I routinely achieve when using parany (fork + marshal/unmarshal to/from files).

[UnixJunkie]

The transfer was done, so let's close this issue.