Arthur Chan wrote:

> Btw, I wouldn't try to use OCaml with Ubuntu,

I find the Ocaml support on Ubuntu to be excellent. This is mainly
due to the hard word of the Debian Ocaml maintainers.

> Support is generally flaky.

Sorry, thats not my experience.

> The mainline OCaml that comes with Ubuntu is fine, but the gl+gtk
> support is broken.

Use both lablgl and lablgtk (but not together) without problems.

What exactly is broken. Have you logged a bug with Ubuntu or with
the Debian Ocaml maintainers.

> version of Eclipse that ships with Ubuntu is freaking ancient and won't
> support the Scala plugin.  From what I remember, 8.0.4 also shipped with
> some fossilized version of Scala itself.

I don't use Scala or Eclipse so I can't comment on that.

Erik
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