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 TAA07737; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:32:27 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA09914 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:32:25 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i81HWOxe005820 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:32:25 +0200 Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (unknown [192.168.0.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com", Issuer "excelhustler.com" (not verified)) by gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7DBBA1EA; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:32:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7079E30F38; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:32:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com ([192.168.0.12]) by localhost (chatterbox [192.168.0.12]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id 08517-06; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:32:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wile.internal.excelhustler.com (wile.internal.excelhustler.com [192.168.1.34]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4648BA0F1; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:32:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wile.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC4702E00A; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:32:15 -0500 (CDT) From: John Goerzen To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:32:14 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: "Brandon J. Van Every" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409011232.15432.jgoerzen@complete.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at excelhustler.com X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 413607A8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 brandon:99 priorities:01 ocaml:01 media:98 unix:02 unix:02 wrote:03 macos:04 forgetting:04 i'd:06 sgi:93 visited:91 digital:90 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wednesday 01 September 2004 11:38 am, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > > I think you have your priorities crossed. Lots of good code > > migrates out of the Unix culture into the Windows development > > world, but it historically *never* happens when Unix-centric people > > push=97 only when Windows-centric people pull. > > Mono I'd say few Windows people have any need for that. > concept of installation packages Yes, that concept was present in Unix systems prior to Windows, but=20 again, I don't think there's any code that went to the Windows side. > most commercial digital media editing software Are you forgetting that MacOS X is a Unix platform? > most games I still don't see how this code moves frmo Unix. > My stereotype of a UNIX guy is someone who likes to play with text > editors all day long. Obviously you have not visited sgi.com or freedesktop.org then. ------------------- 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