Upgrade to 4.06.1

[bobzhang]

• Better tool support (bspack) lambda parser
  so that we can test lambda before even upgrade
  https://github.com/stedolan/malfunction/blob/master/src/malfunction_parser.ml

• Conditional compilation

• Upgrade bspack and ppx

• Upgrade Lambda convert

• Check some regression and new features

• new features which might impact the upgrade:

  • Support "exception" under or-patterns (PR#6422) ocaml/ocaml#305
  • Make CamlinternalOO a bit less unsafe ocaml/ocaml#238
  • ocaml/ocaml@aaeda77
    better compilation of tuple assignment
  • Js_of_ocaml broken with OCaml trunk ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#374
  • -keep-locs now become default (-no-keep-locs available)

• Optimizations/enhancement based on new features

  • detect int overflow Int larger than 32 bit are truncated #373 , platform dependent behavior #333
  • submodule as dict compile submodule as dictionary instead of array #190

• Enhancement

  • Parse arbitrary precision integers .. ocaml/ocaml#170
    Could be exploited to give better syntax for JS big int
    Better error message for overflow checks

[shinzui]

Should this target 4.07 now since the release is imminent?

[omeid]

4.07 has been long released now.

[bobzhang]

We will cut a release 5 (for 4.02) and 6 ( for 4.06) very soon. Sorry we can not follow the release cycle of OCaml due to limited resources.

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