Update request: ocamlPackages.bap 2.5.0 -> unstable?

[katrinafyi]

Although 2.5.0 is the latest officially-marked release, the upstream project has seen notable development in the past 2 years. Some of the most important are a migration to Dune (away from a bespoke Makefile-based system), and compatibility with recent LLVM versions (15, 16, 17). The pace of development has slowed recently, so it is not clear when a new release would be made.

Upgrading should make building and packaging much simpler, and (optimistically) it might fix dynamic linking errors arising from their current custom plugin system.

Is there interest in such an upgrade? Maybe both stable and unstable BAP versions can be maintained..? I can also help with this.

https://github.com/BinaryAnalysisPlatform/bap

BinaryAnalysisPlatform/bap@v2.5.0...master

• Package name: ocamlPackages.bap
• Latest released version: 2.5.0

• Current version on the unstable channel: 2.5.0
• Current version on the stable/release channel: 2.5.0

• Checked the nixpkgs pull requests

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[AndersonTorres]

It seems that maurer is not working actively on Nixpkgs:

https://github.com/maurer/nixpkgs
#290642

You are free to add yourself into maintainers list.

Also, since this is not an auto-generated package, you are also free to update it to the latest version.
I believe that if they are keeping backwards compatibility, you are free to not keep the stable version along with the bleeding edge.

[katrinafyi]

Ah, thanks for the advice and the update on maurer. I'll work on this when I have some time :)

[katrinafyi]

Some experimentation has found this trickier and less beneficial than anticipated. I'll leave it to someone else if desired.