From: Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to fail to install Ocaml in 18 steps
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:52:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC23672.7070709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB0nkh1gei0P826EBnPAMzJdANXSDTZxArx1A=c3C+5K_Jc=cw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Tue 15 Nov 2011 10:43:39 AM CET, Andrej Bauer wrote:
> I would like to report on a recent experience of a student of mine who
> is starting to learn Ocaml. His first taks was to get Ocaml installed
> on his Windows 7. The student previously had no trouble installing
> Java, Eclipse, erlang, and an erlang plugin for Eclipse.
>
> 1. He tried to install with the binary installer for Windows. Norton
> Antivirus told him the installer has too low a reputation and deleted
> it.
So that looks like the major pain point. Any advice on how to make sure
the installer is Norton-compliant?
> 2. He installed the source, which meant he just unpacked it someplace.
> 3. He installed one of the Ocaml plugins for Eclipse, I think it was
> the fpeclipse one.
> 4. The plugin complained that it can't find Ocaml, even though he told
> it where he unpacked the source.
>
> Then I came in. I realized he just unpacked the source, asked him if
> he tried the binary installer, and he told me the antivirus story. So
> we went on:
>
> 5. We deleted the source.
> 6. We installed Mingw.
> 7. We disabled Norton Antivirus and installed Ocaml with the binary installer.
> 8. Eclipse stopped working.
> 9. I diagoned the problem relatively quickly: the Ocaml installer or
> maybe MinGW destroyed the PATH environment variable.
> 10. We spent some time restoring PATH to a correct value.
I've had reports about that, I'm going to build a new version of the
installer that hopefully doesn't have this issue. Was the PATH really long?
jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-15 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-15 9:43 Andrej Bauer
2011-11-15 9:52 ` Jonathan Protzenko [this message]
2011-11-15 10:25 ` ivan chollet
2011-11-15 10:26 ` Andrej Bauer
[not found] ` <1321370897.43865.YahooMailNeo@web111510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
2011-11-15 22:22 ` Andrej Bauer
2011-11-15 23:19 ` Dmitry Grebeniuk
2011-11-16 8:38 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-11-16 2:38 ` rixed
2011-11-16 13:44 ` Komtanoo Pinpimai
2011-11-16 18:16 ` Anthony Tavener
2011-11-15 10:00 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-11-15 10:21 ` Andrej Bauer
2011-11-15 10:32 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-11-16 6:28 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-11-15 10:37 ` Dmitry Grebeniuk
2011-11-15 10:53 ` Paolo Donadeo
2011-11-15 11:00 ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-11-15 11:50 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-11-15 12:01 ` [Caml-list] " Adrien
2011-11-16 3:02 ` [Caml-list] " Stefan Monnier
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