From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pAFAP4B1031284 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:25:10 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoUBAK89wk7RVdK2mGdsb2JhbABDmXSIBgGGGoFNCCIBAQEBAQgJDQcUJYFyAQEBAwESAiwBGxILAQMBCwYFBAcNDSEhAQERAQUBCgQBDQYTEhCHYAidLAqLYYJlhUw9iHECBQqDSIYyBIJbkVWKS4MCPYJFgSs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,514,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="130625481" Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com ([209.85.210.182]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 15 Nov 2011 11:25:09 +0100 Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so12089136iak.27 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:25:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=sZiFMwdBpqYU/3441IUzrmYNeOFwNevi7XIaMgzF5WI=; b=E0AzoaGunXKVkbiKjNMWXIKU561weJZ7QPN/Adqni4m0WpJH7za8K+G04DVCYyTXuf P5zPyWlGoJ7I6SN82i9+k+va+NnlIqOGoSq+0GYUyfC80SrCdKFRJaidovsBMUAaZPh1 ySLVkndPQH4khRq+GJWt6GaNgm8wTM3hQbm3w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.52.136 with SMTP id vm8mr26825664icb.26.1321352708370; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.220.196 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:25:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EC23672.7070709@gmail.com> References: <4EC23672.7070709@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:25:08 +0000 Message-ID: From: ivan chollet To: Jonathan Protzenko Cc: Andrej Bauer , caml-list@inria.fr Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec529a051ce2f7f04b1c36672 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to fail to install Ocaml in 18 steps --bcaec529a051ce2f7f04b1c36672 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Norton is a notorious piece of malware and has little to do on a student machine. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jonathan Protzenko < jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/**wws/info/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/**ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-**bugs > > --bcaec529a051ce2f7f04b1c36672 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Norton is a notorious piece of malware and has little to do on a student ma= chine.


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:52 A= M, Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote:
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<= br> 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 install= er.
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 th= e installer that hopefully doesn't have this issue. Was the PATH really= long?

jonathan

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