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 JAA30334; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:15:04 +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 JAA30718 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:15:03 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from wetware.com (wetware.wetware.com [199.108.16.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7V7F2i8031323 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:15:03 +0200 Received: from [208.177.152.17] (helo=[10.0.1.5]) by wetware.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1C22r3-0005L8-TV for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:14:58 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Message-Id: <766DFB05-FB1D-11D8-97E9-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: james woodyatt Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:14:56 -0700 To: The Caml Trade X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41342576.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; woodyatt:01 jhw:01 wetware:01 caml-list:01 brandon:99 sven:01 luther:01 woodyatt:01 jhw:01 wetware:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 lazy:02 ported:02 ported:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On 30 Aug 2004, at 23:50, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: >> >> This would indeed be a great great additional functionality. > > Well, speaking as a Windows-centric guy, I'd rather people just put=20 > their time into good Windows support. [...] I'd rather that the Windows-centric guys on the list put their time=20 into good Windows support for Ocaml, rather than continually harping at=20= people like me, who couldn't give a rat's patootie whether the existing=20= level of support for Windows improves any time soon. I haven't ported my Cf library to Windows because I don't have a=20 Windows box and I'm not a Windows developer. I put forward a call for=20= Windows-centric guys on this list over a year ago to help me get my=20 library ported and compiling under Microsoft Visual-C with the straight=20= Windows Ocaml port. I have had not a single ping on the subject. It's=20= like they don't even notice, and frankly=97 it's not like it really bugs=20= me. It just tells me that Windows-centric guys don't like my code. =20 That's fine. I don't like theirs all that much either. Meanwhile, not a week goes by on this list without some Windows-centric=20= guy complaining about the vacuum of Windows support for Ocaml. I'm=20 starting to believe the problem is that Windows-centric guys are lazy=20 bums who whine too much about what other people choose to do with their=20= time when they should be spending their own time coding on things that=20= are important to them. --=20 j h woodyatt markets are only free to the people who own them.= ------------------- 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