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=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 65EDCBC0A for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:39:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBJEdIh1026360 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:39:20 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gwg7i-0005A0-00 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:39:18 +0000 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:39:18 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise) Message-ID: <20061219143917.GA18704@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <20061218002708.GA16314@apotheon.com> <20061218195207.GK21840@patate.is-a-geek.org> <20061218212858.GB7742@furbychan.cocan.org> <87k60o98d3.fsf@linux-france.org> <20061218222049.GA27752@furbychan.cocan.org> <20061219094922.bc63df4b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1166501629.11647.76.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1166501629.11647.76.camel@rosella.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4587F996.003 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 bug:01 ocaml:01 tarball:01 versioned:01 blog:98 blog:98 cvs:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 off-topic:02 python:02 patches:03 debian:03 On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:13:49PM +1100, skaller wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:49 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > No. It's not a bug in Ubuntu, so much as a problem that they seem to > > > have exported an incorrect mix of packages, probably during one of > > > Debian-ocaml-maint's "upgrade the whole world" exercises between > > > 3.09.1 and 3.09.2. In any case you can fix the issue by upgrading to > > > the current testing version (Feisty). > > > > Damn I just upgraded my laptop from Dapper to Edgy [0] to get some updated > > Python libraries. I haven't done much Ocaml since the upgrade but if is > > as broken as you say I might well switch back to Debian. > > Just download the Ocaml tarball and build it yourself. > Or even better -- build directly from the CVS repository. > Ocaml builds 'out of the box': very nice job from Inria there > considering it is double bootstraps! Sure it does, but package management is more than just about building a single base program once. To install our CMS, we use at least 10 libraries (helpfully maintained by Debian-ocaml-maint), and we want those libraries to be versioned, maintained and have upgrades and security patches applied automatically. Anyhow, this is really getting off-topic. Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Internet Marketing and AdWords courses - http://merjis.com/courses - NEW! Merjis blog - http://blog.merjis.com - NEW!