From: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: OCaml support on Ubuntu
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:44:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljxdrki6.fsf_-_@pat35-1-82-229-60-210.fbx.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080926165211.GA9490@annexia.org> (Richard Jones's message of "Fri\, 26 Sep 2008 17\:52\:11 +0100")
Hello Richard,
Context: I'm a long time Debian user, still using Debian on my
servers. But I switched my desktop machine under Ubuntu a few years ago,
seduced by the good polish and freshness of Ubuntu desktop applications.
Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> writes:
> Ubuntu's OCaml support is very flaky. They don't have developers
> committed to it and take a random snapshot of what's in Debian. This
> has in the past led to serious brokenness where they've taken a
> snaphot in the middle of a rebuild-the-world compiler upgrade.
I'm sorry to agree that Richard is right.
For example, I discovered at a time that *all* bytecodes shipped in Ubuntu
Gutsy could not be executed. This was fixed once spotted:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ocamlnet/+bug/180364
Another example: current Hardy release (which has Long Term Support
status) is shipped which OCaml 3.10.0 which is broken regarding Camlp4.
To fix this situation, one only needs people on the Ubuntu side to
synchronize packets from Debian at the right time.
As I have an direct interest in this story and while I have no knowledge
at all regarding Ubuntu workflow, I'll try to see what can be done.
Sincerely yours,
david
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-26 11:30 Teaching ocaml programming Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 11:44 ` [Caml-list] " Lukasz Stafiniak
2008-09-26 11:52 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 12:07 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 14:31 ` Richard Jones
2008-09-26 14:49 ` Peng Zang
2008-09-26 12:10 ` Brighten Godfrey
2008-09-26 12:41 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 12:55 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2008-09-26 17:44 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-09-26 18:59 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 19:23 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-09-26 20:46 ` David Teller
2008-10-09 21:36 ` Kuba Ober
2008-09-26 22:09 ` Nathaniel Gray
2008-09-26 13:11 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-09-26 13:33 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 13:43 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-09-26 16:15 ` Arthur Chan
2008-09-26 16:52 ` Richard Jones
2008-09-26 22:16 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 9:44 ` David MENTRE [this message]
2008-09-27 9:55 ` [Caml-list] OCaml support on Ubuntu Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 11:21 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-27 12:17 ` David MENTRE
2008-09-26 16:55 ` [Caml-list] Teaching ocaml programming Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 17:11 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-26 18:16 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-09-26 22:20 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-26 22:08 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 6:15 ` Vu Ngoc San
2008-09-27 9:22 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-27 9:33 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 9:36 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 11:16 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-26 14:29 ` Peng Zang
2008-09-26 15:18 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-09-26 16:17 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 16:55 ` Richard Jones
2008-09-26 17:01 ` Peng Zang
2008-09-28 0:06 ` Brighten Godfrey
2008-09-26 20:30 ` David Teller
2008-09-26 22:05 ` Nathaniel Gray
2008-10-09 21:41 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-10 17:08 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-10-11 15:58 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-11 16:19 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-11 21:18 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-10-13 23:21 ` Kuba Ober
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