No, actually this is highly embarrassing for Scala. Nobody seems to be able to build nice and clean scala packages.
Their build process is a mess, and the packages they provide are an ugly hack. They include native code (in jline), they include unnecessary dependencies (akka-actor), etc. Scala needs a nice and clean build process. But it's too hip to care about Linux packaging best practises. Everybody trying to build clean packages of scala (and sbt; as sbt seems to be the only way to build scala currently - and unfortunately, you need sbt to build sbt?!?) seems to give up quickly. This is embarrassing, the scala toolchain cannot bootstrap itself without having scala installed already? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1126035 Title: Scala 2.10.0 needs packaging To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scala/+bug/1126035/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
