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From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
Cc: caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:18:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040831091851.GA18746@pegasos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OOEALCJCKEBJBIJHCNJDMEGMHHAB.vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:05:58AM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, speaking as a Windows-centric guy, I'd rather people just put
> > > their time into good Windows support.  I realize that the
> > > Linux / mingw
> >
> > What for ? It is boring, the tools are subadequat, and any
> > try to compile a
> > nice ocaml/lablgtk app for windows too resulted in no more
> > than a major time lose.
> 
> I already explained why I'm stuck with Windows.

Only because you chose to, nobody is ever stuck with windows.

> But to offer a different philosophical take: Linux is boring too.
> *Programming* is boring.  I only care about the artistic results, the

Well, in linux at least it just works, you have the right tools for doing real
development and so on.

> games I could make via programming.  I'm interested in tools that make
> it all less painful.  Emphasis on *less* painful.  There's still plenty

Just go over and develop under linux, and cross compile. doing this in windows
is order of magnitudes more painfull, as you noticed.

> > Well, but i guess the majority of caml developers are
> > compiling under linux, so ...
> 
> So, to me that's a problem to be solved.

No its not, that is how it should be.

> > And things will probably change drastically from your
> > current perceived situation over the next 5 years or so.
> 
> Would be plenty happy to discuss it on ocaml-biz.
> http://cgorski.org/mailman/listinfo/ocaml-biz_cgorski.org

Sorry, no time for that. But let's have a followup to this 5 years from now.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30 21:02 Ken Rose
2004-08-30 21:30 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-08-31  6:09 ` Sven Luther
2004-08-31  6:50   ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-31  7:14     ` james woodyatt
2004-08-31  9:05       ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-31 13:41         ` John Goerzen
2004-08-31 15:56           ` Ken Rose
2004-08-31 19:30           ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-01  0:05           ` Christopher A. Watford
2004-09-01  7:53             ` Sven Luther
2004-09-01  7:32         ` james woodyatt
2004-09-01 16:38           ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-01 17:17             ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-01 22:56               ` Sven Luther
2004-09-01 17:32             ` John Goerzen
2004-09-02 21:24             ` I R T
2004-08-31  7:16     ` Sven Luther
2004-08-31  9:05       ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-31  9:18         ` Sven Luther [this message]
2004-08-31  9:41           ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-31 15:17           ` skaller
2004-08-31 16:49             ` Sven Luther
2004-08-31 13:48         ` John Goerzen
2004-09-01 13:22         ` I R T
2004-08-31 13:56           ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-08-31 13:29     ` John Goerzen
2004-08-31 14:06       ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-08-31 15:48         ` skaller
2004-08-31 15:54         ` John Goerzen
2004-08-31 22:49           ` Jon Harrop
2004-08-31 23:36             ` Benjamin Geer
2004-09-01  8:08             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-02 11:30               ` Richard Jones
2004-09-09  1:46               ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-01  4:05           ` skaller
2004-09-01  8:45             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-01  7:40           ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-08-31 19:11       ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-01 21:18         ` I R T
2004-08-31 22:36           ` [Caml-list] game development Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-01 23:28             ` I R T
2004-09-01  0:37               ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-31 18:34     ` [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml brogoff
2004-08-31 21:07       ` [Caml-list] OCaml's critical mass Brandon J. Van Every
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408312302560.3196-100000@localhost>
2004-08-31 20:04 ` [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml Brandon J. Van Every
     [not found] <AA48BAF0-FC3A-11D8-8C25-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com>
2004-09-01 18:37 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-01 19:45   ` John Goerzen
2004-09-01 21:16     ` Brandon J. Van Every

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