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 XAA00324; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:43:09 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA32572 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:43:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from comtv.ru (comtv.ru [217.10.32.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA8Mh4D08317 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:43:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from [10.0.66.9] ([10.0.66.9] verified) by comtv.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0) with ESMTP-TLS id 5405624; Sat, 09 Nov 2002 01:43:03 +0300 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 01:43:48 +0300 (MSK) From: malc X-X-Sender: malc@home.oyster.ru To: Sven Luther cc: jeanmarc.eber@lexifi.com, Nicolas Cannasse , , Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Windows please advise In-Reply-To: <20021108204733.GA4958@iliana> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:20:49PM +0100, jeanmarc.eber@lexifi.com wrote: > > Quoting Sven Luther : > > > > What's the problem about that ? Why :(((( ? > > Isn't it fine that ocaml is used *natively* on the win32 platform also ? > > Yes, but that would mean that the apps developped for it will only be > usable for on windows only, which let many people out in the cold. In > particular, i would love to play a ocaml based games, not that i have > time for it but still, but since i don't have windows, ... > > Also, i remember when i was some time back at the AFIG conference, there > where the people making the outcast games explaining how they did their > software rendering and all, and i asked them about a linux port, since > they software was not using any hardware acceleration, in these pre-DRI > times it would have been a good candidate for a linux port. They > esquived my question, and look where they are now ? Maybe the publicity > coup they would have made with releasing a linux games would have saved > them. Hands off Outcast please. Besides i doubt that Appeal's failure has anything to do with Outcast being windows only. And btw Outcast was instrumental in one person's switch to OCaml. P.S. http://algol.prosalg.no/~malc/motazaar/ -- mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com ------------------- 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