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 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 5E44DBC0A for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBIJqCq4014198 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:13 +0100 Received: from liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr (liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr [132.227.93.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id kBIJq8mT028133 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:08 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Received: from patate.is-a-geek.org ([132.227.81.55]) by liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr (8.12.2/jtpda-5.3.2) with ESMTP id kBIJq7iL007710 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by patate.is-a-geek.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93CC57EE1; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:07 +0100 From: Julien Cristau To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise) Message-ID: <20061218195207.GK21840@patate.is-a-geek.org> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr References: <20061218002708.GA16314@apotheon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061218002708.GA16314@apotheon.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:52:08 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.5/2354/Mon Dec 18 09:50:31 2006 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4586F16C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 4586F168.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; cristau:01 cristau:01 ens-lyon:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 parsers:01 cheers:01 wholly:98 wrote:01 maintainer:01 caml-list:01 strong:96 debian:03 debian:03 dec:05 On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 17:27:08 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > Some of this may apply to OCaml, and how you intend to make use of > OCaml. For instance, assuming strong support for OCaml in both Ubuntu > and Debian, Ubuntu is likely to get new versions of OCaml tools, > libraries, and parsers more quickly than the main Debian release > branches (Stable and Testing, specifically), while with Debian they're > likely to be more stable when first introduced. Also, while wholly new > tools related to OCaml development will be more likely to be eventually > included in Debian, they'll typically show up more quickly in Ubuntu (if > they show up at all). > I don't think that's true. As far as I know, Ubuntu doesn't have any people involved in ocaml packaging, so the ocaml-related packages in Ubuntu are just those taken from Debian every few months. I've yet to see a case where Ubuntu gets a new version of an ocaml package more quickly than Debian. Cheers, Julien (member of the Debian OCaml maintainer team)