I think we should think outside the box here.

Make sure your OCaml has prerequisites that involve some shittier language
like C, which is taught in a Unix environment with xemacs.  Once the
students have seen how awful it can get and they associate the terrible
learning experience with C (what's with the lack of love for emacs anyway?
=/), then you come to the rescue.  :-D

Btw, I wouldn't try to use OCaml with Ubuntu, or *any* recent language that
has been in development.  Support is generally flaky.  The mainline OCaml
that comes with Ubuntu is fine, but the gl+gtk support is broken.  The
version of Eclipse that ships with Ubuntu is freaking ancient and won't
support the Scala plugin.  From what I remember, 8.0.4 also shipped with
some fossilized version of Scala itself.


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si>wrote:

> Hugo Ferreira wrote:
>
>> To make things simpler you may:
>> 0. Use ocamlbuild projects only.
>> 1. Prepare ocamlbuild files (tags and myocamlbuild) if necessary.
>> 2. Provide a workspace with an example project ready for compilation.
>> 3. Let the students use only one project with various source files.
>>
>
> Yes, we do all of this, but unfortunately ocamlbuild under Windows sucks
> because the trick with symbolic links to executables does not work. Has this
> been fixed yet? (Also, ocamlbuild assumes bash is in the path, also under
> Windows.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andrej
>
>
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