Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-28 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 18:58 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: On sab, 2008-09-27 at 08:28 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: While that's true for major changes, if there are updates that would help you should feel free to suggest them. Let's clarify this a bit more: ubuntu has a huge set of

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-28 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno dom, 28/09/2008 alle 11.10 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers ha scritto: This sounds like it could be easily fixed by a set of no-change binary rebuilds, something that would almost certainly be acceptable at this (and almost any) stage of development. [...snip..] Perhaps

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-28 Thread David MENTRE
Hello Vincenzo, Vincenzo Ciancia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because you can recompile the same version of an ancestor, with a minor change, and then you need a way to know that you have to rebuild all your children and so on. Yep. Here are the dependencies of OCaml packages:

OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread David MENTRE
[ Bcc: to Erik and Stefano for information. ] Hello, == Current situation == I am a user of the OCaml programming language and I switched from Debian to Ubuntu a few years ago. While I'm very satisfied by Ubuntu for the desktop, the OCaml support on Ubuntu is quite flaky. The main reason

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 12:26 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: [ Bcc: to Erik and Stefano for information. ] Hello, == Current situation == I am a user of the OCaml programming language and I switched from Debian to Ubuntu a few years ago. While I'm very satisfied by Ubuntu for the desktop,

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread David MENTRE
Hello James, Thank you for the pointers and key words. I'll read that and come back when I have an clearer idea of things to do. Sincerely yours, david -- GPG/PGP key: A3AD7A2A David MENTRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5996 CC46 4612 9CA4 3562 D7AC 6C67 9E96 A3AD 7A2A -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:26:43 +0200 David MENTRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... == To do list and call for help == It is probably too late to do anything for Intrepid Ibex, but my aim is to improve OCaml support for the next Ubuntu release. ... While that's true for major changes, if there are

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On sab, 2008-09-27 at 08:28 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: While that's true for major changes, if there are updates that would help you should feel free to suggest them. Let's clarify this a bit more: ubuntu has a huge set of ocaml packages, that makes it appear a wonderful platform for

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Thanks for the initiative. On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:26:43PM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: [ Bcc: to Erik and Stefano for information. ] This is a bad idea, rather I'm copying [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is _the_ contact place for OCaml maintenance in Debian. Please keep that Cc. For the sake of