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Why is Scala in 14.04 still 2.9.2 and not 2.10.x?

Asked by Alan Mortensen

Summary pretty much says it all. 2.10 has been out for a long time and many libraries are now dependent on 2.10. Also 2.9 and 2.10 binaries are not compatible in the scala-verse so that means any Scala library packages you may have in 14.04 are gonna be useless to a 2.10 Scala developer, which is most of the Scala developers these days.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug. If the bug and security fixes are significant it will be updated.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=scala

May have a Trusty PPA.

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Alan Mortensen (alan-mortensen) said : 		#3

No but there is a precise PPA for 2.10, which tells you how long this has been behind..

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-2.10.4.deb

From the Scala website.....

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

http://www.scala-lang.org/download/all.html

All the way to 2.11 rc3

Does this not install ok?

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Alan Mortensen (alan-mortensen) said : 		#6

I am aware there are work arounds (though I forgot about the debs on scala-lang thanks for reminding me). It just seems to me to be way way behind and it would make sense that it got updated after all this time. I also wasn't aware that there aren't any Scala dependent libraries in Ubuntu, so that makes the custom install less error prone.

I think to put this in a strict question and answer framework, the answer is: the release team have bigger fish to fry and no one from the Scala community is actively maintaining the package for Ubuntu.

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Fernando Racca (fracca) said : 		#7

bigger fish to fry? you are shipping a package that is 3 years out of date for a language that Java is stealing ideas from?

Ubuntu used to be a good distro to do development on, but it is highly embarrassing that you leave open tickets like this for so long.