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Date: | 2006-12-19 (14:39) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise) |
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!