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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAC2BB84 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:33:46 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgDAG6a3UjAXQIniGdsb2JhbACTLwEBARUipgwDgWQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,319,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17409385" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 11:33:46 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8R9Xij8010604 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:33:46 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhwBAGeb3UjLOwFrhmdsb2JhbACTLwEBAQoLCAcTBKYLA4Fk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,319,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="15409417" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.107]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 11:33:41 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEACib3UjLzuai/2dsb2JhbAC5dwOBZA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,319,1220198400"; d="scan'208";a="378001463" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2008 17:33:39 +0800 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 511BAAD520 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:33:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:33:38 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching ocaml programming Message-Id: <20080927193338.e5711419.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <20080927092236.GA3348@usha.takhisis.invalid> References: <48DCC7B8.4070700@fmf.uni-lj.si> <48DCDF9D.6040401@inescporto.pt> <48DCE49F.7000604@fmf.uni-lj.si> <74cabd9e0809260915v675c31w584653d597b7d92f@mail.gmail.com> <20080927080831.451de23f.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <20080927092236.GA3348@usha.takhisis.invalid> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 48DDFDF8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 zacchiroli:01 distro:01 workload:01 ubuntu:98 ubuntu:98 domination:98 terror:98 helen:98 wrote:01 maintainer:01 maintainers:01 caml-list:01 programming:03 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't know which was the Ubuntu release and of course I trust your > words when you say that with LTS everything is OK. I was just observing > that if in some other Ubuntu releases there are issues with OCaml stuff, At work we only use the LTS releases, but on my laptop I switch to every new Ubuntu release in the early beta stages. I have had issues with with other software in some releases. My favourite text editor was horribly broken in Gutsy and Edgy Eft had so many problems I only stayed with it for a week. > More generally, I've already stated in the past that we (Debian side) > are more than open towards Ubuntu developers willing to collaborate with > us for better support of OCaml in any Debian-based distro and to share > the workload (which is getting higher, as OCaml is approaching total > world domination). Sadly, nobody stepped forward to help. Well I'm not an official Ubuntu developer, just someone who develops on Ubuntu, but I have joined the Debian Ocaml Maintainers mailing list and I'm even thinking of becoming an official Debian maintainer. > If you, or anybody else, is an Ubuntu user willing to help in OCaml > package maintenance let me know, there is for sure a task for you :-) Sure. Whats up? Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power." -- Helen Macinnes