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From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Don't forget the user

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