On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:57 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > Was someone doing a comparison between versions of haskell packages > on Ubuntu vs Debian?
My completely unscientific comparison was based on my students' grievances during the last three-month course on Advanced Functional Programming. Out of sixteen students working with Haskell, only two had no problems at all with libraries: those using Squeeze/Sid. The rest were using Ubuntu's latest and latest-1 and they were forced to cabal install either missing or outdated libraries. There was also a perceived difference both in size/speed of compilation on identical machines while using Ubuntu's ghc (felt slower, produced bigger executables) vs. Debian's. I don't follow Ubuntu and don't have any interest in doing so, but most of my students tend to use it and always come up asking why doesn't $someDevLibrary work/install on Ubuntu, and it appears to me that development packages aren't enough nor as up to date as Debian's. And this has been a consistent scenario for the past year and a half or so, not only with Haskell, but also Perl and Ruby (students know better than to ask me for advice on Python or Java :-). -- Ernesto Hernández-Novich - @iamemhn - Unix: Live free or die! Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 438C 49A2 A8C7 E7D7 1500 C507 96D6 A3D6 2F4C 85E3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
