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: http://pkg

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..] > > >

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 h

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 deb

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 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 ar

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu & Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread David MENTRE
Hello Stefano, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a bad idea, rather I'm copying > [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is _the_ contact place for > OCaml maintenance in Debian. Sorry. Thought about it but did not want to bother debian people. I'm keeping the Cc:. > Last note, the fir

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 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

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 behind