updated in Scala on debian-unstable or Ubuntu PPA

+1

On Apr 30, 6:31 pm, Yuvi Masory wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was a little disappointed to see my new Natty installation still has Scala
> 2.7.7.
>
> Proposed solution:
> Official EPFL Ubuntu PPAs for (1) latest stable release (2) latest snapshot,
> (3) and nightly builds.
>
> Is there any interest in this? I'm willing to to do some of this work. The
> most recent PPA I have seen is not up to date.
>
> Yuvi

+1, although I think Ubuntu should just do their work. FYI:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scala/+bug/717745
> +1
>

I think Scala should be distributed as .deb and .rpm, possibly with
Apt and Yum repositories. I'm not sure how to handle the Java
dependency in a general way, but doing something for any one
particular distribution is not the way I'd go.

This much doesn't really impose much. It does require a bit of
knowledge -- a couple of days or more from someone not familiar with
how to do this stuff -- but once done, it could be automated even to
the extent of producing nighties.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 13:31, Yuvi Masory wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was a little disappointed to see my new Natty installation still has Scala
> 2.7.7.
> Proposed solution:
> Official EPFL Ubuntu PPAs for (1) latest stable release (2) latest snapshot,
> (3) and nightly builds.
> Is there any interest in this? I'm willing to to do some of this work. The
> most recent PPA I have seen is not up to date.
> Yuvi
>
>

I like this idea too. I'd possibly be willing to help work on it too.