From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48, SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C24EBC0A for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:14:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4ODEdAt019648 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:14:41 +0200 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so36002ana for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:14:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=PsRDfxW/h1kJINA/iE27OznE2ZvrvsGnXRI1Vznj1VHtGmTjINQbtzXVis6GYA75OIdq0x8zRstkUTxubX5IgfBSjdXAbIJaniHCc5+maoQ+n0sLlmRcOIETZibus1MIZHoiLlveC18ASBy6D6KYBWgPHeDH0YF6D2DAnYK9SNQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=fHLZUKSgsR0qRn3q/3sohNHYLq4ARP6FQhUrW281G4oZrzOlzjmRSWDbf0LEm5APaz/MAOOhC/9Uw2ccRBCr4mw+ApTbynYWp7r675DrPE7esQ17zCFt6CBLsdGfzDp1OI8I6ohahWmu8nMbHBN2FGj1L0Vo6/mqda5GuTIneQM= Received: by 10.100.165.9 with SMTP id n9mr1497152ane.1180012478925; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.12? ( [24.173.161.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d29sm3706795and.2007.05.24.06.14.37; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve. To: Richard Jones Cc: skaller , OCaml In-Reply-To: <20070523104132.GA31982@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1179871823.6966.78.camel@Blefuscu> <1179875960.17533.35.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070523104132.GA31982@furbychan.cocan.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:04:06 -0400 Message-Id: <1179925446.6966.102.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Teller X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 46558FBF.000 on concorde : j-chkmail score : X : 0/20 1 0.000 -> 1 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46558FBF.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; cheers:01 0100,:01 lablgtk:01 lablgl:01 ocaml:01 fedora:01 univ-orleans:01 lifo:01 d'orleans:01 23,:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 installer:01 functional:02 That's a non-argument, I'm afraid. You can't demand the (unenthusiastic) administrator and all students to install Linux just for one lecture. I mean, I guess I could, but for a lecture titled "Algorithmics, Functional Programming", that's a bit drastic. Cheers, David On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:41 +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:19:20AM +1000, skaller wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 18:10 -0400, David Teller wrote: > > > > > * Students just can't install LablGtk, LablGl, Camlimage... by > > > themselves, nor would I expect them to. A nice, centralised, installer, > > > would be nice. > > > > This sound like your School's fault. Why aren't they running > > Debian or Ubuntu? > > > > Because on those systems .. installing Ocaml packages is a breeze. > > Just what I was going to say! > > Hopefully it'll be a breeze on Fedora soon too. > > Rich. > -- David Teller ------------------------------------------ Security of Distributed Systems ----------------------- -- http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller ----- Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans