OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise)

OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise)

[Bill Wood]

Rats!  I fat-fingered the original post with this subject big time; my
apologies.  Of course, I'm interested in asking this community about
OCaml on Debian or Ubuntu.

Again, apologies for the mixup.

 -- Bill Wood

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise)

[Philippe Wang]

Bill Wood wrote :
> Rats!  I fat-fingered the original post with this subject big time; my
> apologies.  Of course, I'm interested in asking this community about
> OCaml on Debian or Ubuntu.
> 
> Again, apologies for the mixup.
> 
>  -- Bill Wood

I don't think you should choose your linux distrib just because of that...

Ubuntu and Debian don't aim the same kind of users.

On both, there are many OCaml users and there is no reason why one would 
be worse for OCaml.

However, maybe Ubuntu community is more active now as it is _the_ fast 
spreading linux distribution !

Make your choice for other reasons, like file systems (debian only 
supports ext2 ext3 and reiserfs when you install it, while ubuntu 
supports more FSs...)

Well, maybe this mailing list is not the right place to ask such a 
question ;-)

--
Philippe Wang
   mail (at) philippewang.info

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise)

[Philippe Wang]

Bill Wood wrote :
> On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 19:28 +0100, Philippe Wang wrote:
>    . . .
>> Make your choice for other reasons, like file systems (debian only 
>> supports ext2 ext3 and reiserfs when you install it, while ubuntu 
>> supports more FSs...)
> 
> Can you give me a pointer to a discussion of this?  What features of
> these other FS's would make them more attractive than the ones supported
> by Debian?


I prefer JFS because it's mainly faster than any other FS I've tried.

ext2 is not journalized
ext3 needs way too much time to be created (count in minutes for a big hdd)
xfs is a problem on your boot partition if you want to use grub
reiserfs is not maintained anymore by its creator, and needs way to much 
time to mount
reiserfs4 is not supported if you don't compile your own kernel
fat is obsolete
fat32 is widly used... still, it's not journalized, it doesn't handle 
rights on files, nor owners, etc...
ntfs is not well supported for writing on other systems than windows

JFS is fast to create, fast to mount, and it's journalized and has the 
features I need...

Well, that's for Linux, of course.

(I also use Mac OS X, and well, you don't have a lot of choice on that 
OS ;-)

Well, anyway, JFS is not widely officially supported... To be sure, the 
solution must be ext3, but I really can't stand waiting more than 10 
minutes just for a hdd to be formatted...

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise)

[N. Owen Gunden]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Bill Wood wrote:
> I'm interested in asking this community about OCaml on Debian or
> Ubuntu.

It doesn't really matter what distribution you choose, because you
can just use GODI to get OCaml packages instead of using the system
package management tool.  I would recommend choosing based on other
merits.

http://godi.ocaml-programming.de/

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise)

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Bill Wood wrote:

> Rats!  I fat-fingered the original post with this subject big time; my
> apologies.  Of course, I'm interested in asking this community about
> OCaml on Debian or Ubuntu.

I use Ocaml on both a Debian testing machine and on Ubuntu machines.

Since I run the Testing version of Debian, I find that the libraries
can be a little more up-to-date that Ubuntu while Ubuntu is a little
more polished that Debian.

Ocaml is supported so well on these platforms that I rarely need to
download anything and install it from source.


Erik
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