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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559E0BC0A for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:44:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from host15.ipowerweb.com (host15.ipowerweb.com [66.235.219.115]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBI2iVrT021093 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:44:34 +0100 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=apotheon.com) by host15.ipowerweb.com with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gw8UM-0001cZ-Pu; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:44:26 -0800 Received: by apotheon.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B42A833424; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:44:08 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:44:08 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: Philippe Wang Cc: Chad Perrin , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise) Message-ID: <20061218024408.GA16959@apotheon.com> References: <20061218002708.GA16314@apotheon.com> <4585EB30.1060908@philippewang.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4585EB30.1060908@philippewang.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host15.ipowerweb.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - inria.fr X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4586008F.007 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0100,:01 partitioning:01 configuring:01 partitions:01 ocaml:01 reid:98 distrib:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 tend:02 filesystem:02 filesystem:02 tree:02 types:03 On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:13:20AM +0100, Philippe Wang wrote: > Chad Perrin a =E9crit : >=20 > >I'm afraid you must not be very familiar with the current state of > >affairs in Debian. For the last three years, I've been using XFS, fro= m > >a choice of more than a half-dozen different filesystem types, with > >Debian installs. JFS, FAT, and other filesystem types are also > >available. >=20 > I mean that when you take the default install CD, you don't have other=20 > choice but ext2, ext3 and reiserFS. > I really didn't mean one couldn't use another FS... >=20 > (but maybe I'm wrong... When I saw I could only use ext[2|3] and=20 > reiserFS at the prompt when I put the last debian CD (i don't know whic= h=20 > version, but a 2006 version anyways) I just gave up the idea because I=20 > didn't want reiserFS and ext3 takes too much time to build) Every Debian install I've done since the new debian-installer was adopted for Sarge while it was still in Testing has allowed custom partitioning with any of a wide range of filesystems. I suspect you are either not using the default debian-installer or you are not configuring the partitions with all the available tools if you are not aware of other filesystems that are available at install time. >=20 > >OCaml support in Debian is excellent. It's rock-solid, in fact. Ubun= tu > >tends to be a little bit less reliable in terms of its less-mainstream > >packages, but that doesn't mean that its OCaml support is lacking -- I > >haven't tried using OCaml on Ubuntu, so you'll have to get such > >information from someone else. As you (Philippe Wang) seem to indicat= e, > >OCaml support is at least "good enough" in Ubuntu, in which case I agr= ee > >that choice of distribution should probably be based on some other fac= tor > >if the field of options before you is Ubuntu and Debian (though as I > >pointed out above it's possible that the differences in Ubuntu and > >Debian might still play a role in making the best choice). >=20 > To me, it's quite weird to make the choice mainly because of OCaml=20 > support. I mean if Ubuntu and Debian have come to have the same score=20 > and OCaml support is goind to tell which one wins, it's really strange=20 > to me. But well, why not... I can understand it, to some degree, if one's purpose in choosing a distribution for a given install is to have the best possible OCaml development environment. > Still I believe the choice should be based on other distrib features. . . . but I tend to agree that there are a number of other, more important reasons for choosing a distribution, most of the time. Such reasons have, in fact, caused me to mostly give up Debian in favor of FreeBSD recently -- which also provides excellent OCaml support in its ports tree. --=20 CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."