From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE16DBB84 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:08:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgYBAB763EjLOwFsh2dsb2JhbACTLAEBAQoLCgUTBKkdA4Fj X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,316,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17813253" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 00:08:39 +0200 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8QM8c1T029839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:08:39 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgYBAB763EjLOwFsh2dsb2JhbACTLAEBAQoLCgUTBKkdA4Fj X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,316,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17813249" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.108]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 00:08:36 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEANf63EjLzuai/2dsb2JhbAC9CAOBYw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,316,1220198400"; d="scan'208";a="393434592" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 06:08:33 +0800 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E2721AD65D for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:08:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:08:31 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching ocaml programming Message-Id: <20080927080831.451de23f.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <74cabd9e0809260915v675c31w584653d597b7d92f@mail.gmail.com> References: <48DCC7B8.4070700@fmf.uni-lj.si> <48DCDF9D.6040401@inescporto.pt> <48DCE49F.7000604@fmf.uni-lj.si> <74cabd9e0809260915v675c31w584653d597b7d92f@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 48DD5D66.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 gtk:01 lablgl:01 lablgtk:01 bug:01 ubuntu:98 ubuntu:98 wrote:01 maintainers:01 maintainers:01 caml-list:01 btw:03 programming:03 debian:04 Arthur Chan wrote: > Btw, I wouldn't try to use OCaml with Ubuntu, I find the Ocaml support on Ubuntu to be excellent. This is mainly due to the hard word of the Debian Ocaml maintainers. > Support is generally flaky. Sorry, thats not my experience. > The mainline OCaml that comes with Ubuntu is fine, but the gl+gtk > support is broken. Use both lablgl and lablgtk (but not together) without problems. What exactly is broken. Have you logged a bug with Ubuntu or with the Debian Ocaml maintainers. > version of Eclipse that ships with Ubuntu is freaking ancient and won't > support the Scala plugin. From what I remember, 8.0.4 also shipped with > some fossilized version of Scala itself. I don't use Scala or Eclipse so I can't comment on that. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "If you need a piece of paper and a pen to explain it, then its not bleedin' obvious" -- Erik's First Law