[Caml-list] Ubuntu PPAs for OCaml (4.00 and 4.01dev)

[Caml-list] Ubuntu PPAs for OCaml (4.00 and 4.01dev)

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

I've put together two Ubuntu PPAs to make it more convenient to use modern OCaml/OPAM versions on Ubuntu via binary packages.

OPAM stable:
https://launchpad.net/~avsm/+archive/ppa
This includes the latest stable OCaml (4.00.1) and OPAM (1.0.0).

OPAM unstable:
https://launchpad.net/~avsm/+archive/ppa-opam-unstable
This includes the latest snapshot of OCaml (4.01.0dev) and OPAM (1.0.1dev).  This should get you reasonably stable snapshot of both, and will include the release candidates of OCaml when it's released.

For now, these are experimental PPAs as I muddle my way through learning how Debian packaging works.  Reports of breakage or success to me directly would be appreciated.  Most of this PPA was based on the excellent Debian package sources, and thanks to Mehdid Dogguy in particular for the OPAM packaging.

cheers,
Anil

Re: [Caml-list] Ubuntu PPAs for OCaml (4.00 and 4.01dev)

[Andrew Shweduke]

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Hi Anil,

Would it be possible to support older versions (at least 12.04) of Ubuntu?

Thanks,
Andrew


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> I've put together two Ubuntu PPAs to make it more convenient to use modern
> OCaml/OPAM versions on Ubuntu via binary packages.
>
> OPAM stable:
> https://launchpad.net/~avsm/+archive/ppa
> This includes the latest stable OCaml (4.00.1) and OPAM (1.0.0).
>
> OPAM unstable:
> https://launchpad.net/~avsm/+archive/ppa-opam-unstable
> This includes the latest snapshot of OCaml (4.01.0dev) and OPAM
> (1.0.1dev).  This should get you reasonably stable snapshot of both, and
> will include the release candidates of OCaml when it's released.
>
> For now, these are experimental PPAs as I muddle my way through learning
> how Debian packaging works.  Reports of breakage or success to me directly
> would be appreciated.  Most of this PPA was based on the excellent Debian
> package sources, and thanks to Mehdid Dogguy in particular for the OPAM
> packaging.
>
> cheers,
> Anil
> --
> Caml-list mailing list.  Subscription management and archives:
> https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list
> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
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Re: [Caml-list] Ubuntu PPAs for OCaml (4.00 and 4.01dev)

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

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It is, if people could confirm to me that the existing ones work first on Raring.  There's a certain manual effort in supporting the older versions that I'll script up if the existing packages do the job.

And please do note that these PPA packages are really intended to be all you need to bootstrap OPAM and do source-based development.  They're really not intended to supplant the full range of binary packages that the Debian OCaml team develops, nor be held to the same quality standard as their packages.

-anil

On 17 Jul 2013, at 15:29, Andrew Shweduke <shweduke@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anil,
> 
> Would it be possible to support older versions (at least 12.04) of Ubuntu?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
> I've put together two Ubuntu PPAs to make it more convenient to use modern OCaml/OPAM versions on Ubuntu via binary packages.
> 
> OPAM stable:
> https://launchpad.net/~avsm/+archive/ppa
> This includes the latest stable OCaml (4.00.1) and OPAM (1.0.0).
> 
> OPAM unstable:
> https://launchpad.net/~avsm/+archive/ppa-opam-unstable
> This includes the latest snapshot of OCaml (4.01.0dev) and OPAM (1.0.1dev).  This should get you reasonably stable snapshot of both, and will include the release candidates of OCaml when it's released.
> 
> For now, these are experimental PPAs as I muddle my way through learning how Debian packaging works.  Reports of breakage or success to me directly would be appreciated.  Most of this PPA was based on the excellent Debian package sources, and thanks to Mehdid Dogguy in particular for the OPAM packaging.
> 
> cheers,
> Anil
> --
> Caml-list mailing list.  Subscription management and archives:
> https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list
> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
> 


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Re: [Caml-list] Ubuntu PPAs for OCaml (4.00 and 4.01dev)

[Paolo Donadeo]

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> It is, if people could confirm to me that the existing ones work first on
> Raring.


Just installed the stable package (1.0.0) on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. It works
as expected, and I have a rather complex situation: two "OPAM roots"
installed in my home, both with 2 compilers installed, and some hand made
Bash machinery to switch from one the the other.

Maybe in the Debian package you could add the bash completion
script<https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/blob/master/shell/opam_completion.sh>
in
/etc/bash_completion.d but this is really marginal.


-- 
*Paolo*

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