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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBBEBC69 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:12:13 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAJpJE0fUnw6DiGdsb2JhbACCOIwPAQEBCAQGERiBJw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,278,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3054257" Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.131]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2007 20:12:12 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IhUQG-0001Wq-Il for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:12:12 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml website down? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <433C198F-2676-4808-A238-D179DA340008@rice.edu> <200710151537.43888.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710151903.11677.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 afaik:01 speedup:01 apt-get:01 ocaml:01 cvs:01 frog:98 wrote:01 compile:01 experimental:01 caml-list:01 btw:03 top-level:03 install:05 curious:09 On Monday 15 October 2007 17:43:40 Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > AFAIK, you won't get any speedup from doing this. I am really curious > why you should use "sudo apt-get --build source ocaml"! I don't see any > advantages. I used apt to download the source, then I copied my CVS checkout of the (excellent!) experimental natdynlink branch over the package's version and then I used "apt" to compile it and build it into a .deb file that I could install. Now I have both the reassurance of apt's package management and the awesomeness of an ocamlnat top-level (which is mentioned in the latest OCaml Journal article on FFTs, BTW). -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e