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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F688BC6C for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:01:05 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,277,1199660400"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="8533830" Received: from peray.inria.fr (HELO ausone.inria.fr) ([128.93.8.98]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 30 Jan 2008 13:01:04 +0100 Received: by ausone.inria.fr (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, _d Jan 2008 13:00:01 +0100 From: "Nicolas Pouillard" Cc: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [OSR] Ports-like package management system To: jon References: <479F0664.2070706@exalead.com> <200801300951.47060.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200801301043.55944.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: <200801301043.55944.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:00:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1201694164-sup-1694@ausone.inria.fr> User-Agent: Sup/git Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1201694401-96267-27517-4011-15-="; micalg="pgp-sha1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 wiki:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 flamewar:01 haskell:01 haskell:01 git:98 imho:01 wrote:01 slides:01 caml-list:01 functional:02 seems:03 optimization:03 X-Attachments: cset="UTF-8" type="application/pgp-signature" name="signature.asc" name="signature.asc" --=-1201694401-96267-27517-4011-15-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Excerpts from jon's message of Wed Jan 30 11:43:55 +0100 2008: > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:18:14 Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > OCaml in Debian has a lot of problems. I have talked about openly > > during the meeting. You can find my slides on the wiki, if you want more > > information about it. > > http://wiki.cocan.org/events/europe/ocamlmeetingparis2008 > > Yes. Thanks for the link. > > > In this case, i was talking about dealing with repository/metadata. > > Which is something about package management and not OCaml in Debian. I > > just suggest using a ftp repository and putting a VCS field in the > > metadata. > > Sure. I don't see a clear preference for either myself. > > > >> and don't let people going into endless discussion about Git being > > >> faster than Darcs -- but less useful than Hg. > > > > > > Debian have also failed to resolve this. > > > > I never participate to flameware. But i have seen many on Debian lists, > > and think it is a waste of time. Just like people on this list when they > > also go into flameware... > > Flamewars may be a waste of time but I don't see that as a flamewar. The idea > of using software written in Haskell (darcs) because OCaml has none and > Haskell is a related language seems nice but several darcs users have said > here that it is really broken and unusable. I've never used it myself but > I've certainly heard that a lot elsewhere and few people use darcs anyway. Users that consider darcs broken and/or unusable are not darcs users, they perhaps tried it, that's all. IMHO they've applied the "correction before optimization" principle. A principle that we often spread in functional programming community. -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai --=-1201694401-96267-27517-4011-15-= Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHoGbBj+FCNw9dwLkRAgIQAKCGJn/LgxWq1t500OAQ4zpeW3CIMwCbB8xT /iwhbS5xLlh+32ldxMoio2c= =L8y9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1201694401-96267-27517-4011-15-=--