[isabelle-dev] Towards Poly/ML 5.8

[Lars Hupel]

> After a lot of refinements by David Matthews we are moving towards the
> new Poly/ML 5.8 release. Isabelle/8c587dd44f51 already bundles a 
> Poly/ML
> version of that number, without being official yet. The Isabelle NEWS
> already talk about an official release:

Is it intentional that the system identifier is still 5.7.1?

   ML_SYSTEM=polyml-5.7.1

This also raises the question if that variable has any remaining uses.