From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Don't forget the user
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:48:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFrFfuEmdnfG2ijYNK3buapes-SVpfN=xbbdHtYdtrsJ8hf1qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB0nkh3ox4sNn+5HzUeokmYbaSjsXE85e0JWDOE4YuT_giFYyQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com> wrote:
> Recent discussions on how to improve the Ocaml-on-windows situation
> are very welcome, but I see a lot of tech-speak and little feeling for
> the users, who care just about one thing: to have a click & install
> distribution of Ocaml that actually works.
>
> Keep this in mind: 90% of potential Ocaml users are on Windows, and
> they never heard of Mingw or Cygwin, and they never used a command
> prompt.
>
> It doesn't matter if the distribution is incomplete. It doesn't matter
> what is under the hood.
There's another use case for a good OCaml-on-windows - people who want
to write once and deploy everywhere. For that, it matters very much if
the distribution is incomplete.
I agree that a nice, beginner-friendly package would be a plus,
though, ideally combined with a lightweight ide that is preconfigured
to find the compiler in the same place that the installer puts it.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-15 7:29 Andrej Bauer
2011-12-15 10:33 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-15 17:48 ` Martin DeMello [this message]
2011-12-16 19:22 ` Jon Harrop
2011-12-16 19:56 ` Andrej Bauer
2011-12-16 20:02 ` Andrej Bauer
2011-12-16 20:12 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2011-12-17 14:07 ` Paolo Donadeo
2011-12-16 20:16 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2011-12-17 13:16 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-12-18 14:43 ` Çagdas Bozman
[not found] ` <CANnJ5GcBDHzRjGLNgoPMLtgY8m_zfYLKcFhz+daWu6m+u1vbHA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-18 20:26 ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2011-12-18 20:45 ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-12-16 20:09 ` Roberto Di Cosmo
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