From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA02934; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:39:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04151; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:39:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hermes1.umh.ac.be (hermes.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.76]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i33J87YM001011; Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:08:11 +0200 Received: from poincare (mail@poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.162]) by hermes1.umh.ac.be (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i33J5GRX1843450; Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:05:18 +0200 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B9kIF-0000vK-00; Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:30:35 +0200 Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:30:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20040403.143034.83265381.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: Xavier Leroy Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What's wrong with win32? From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: <20040401153221.A6842@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <20040330.124942.118545865.debian00@tiscali.be> <20040330.190949.63823938.debian00@tiscali.be> <20040401153221.A6842@pauillac.inria.fr> Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut X-URL: http://www.umh.ac.be/math/an/ X-Spook: blackjack spies IRA Noriega cybercash AVN morse bomb FIPS140 Mossad X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.61 on Emacs 21.3.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 troestler:01 troestler:01 chris:01 christophe:01 christophe:01 wrote:03 horrible:04 cheers:06 quite:06 thu:08 memory:09 explain:09 U9:89 what's:11 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 49 On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > Hope this answers your question. It does. Thanks for taking the time to explain in details. > [...] too much work for the purpose of supporting Windows 9x, which > is an horrible piece of software that should die as quickly as possible. Well, I personally do not care much about win 9x but here some students and faculty members still run win 9x (somehow understandably as in their minds the alternative is XP which is quite memory hungry). Thus I have to take care of that when I write software that they might (will) run. Cheers, ChriS ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners