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 LAA02297; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:06:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA01684 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:06:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mwinf0503.wanadoo.fr (smtp5.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.26]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7V96m1t014961 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:06:48 +0200 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0503.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id 0E4AF680014F; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:06:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pegasos (AStrasbourg-251-1-51-25.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.126.216.25]) by mwinf0503.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C97C56800079; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from luther by pegasos with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C24my-0004tU-4R; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:18:52 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:18:51 +0200 To: "Brandon J. Van Every" Cc: caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml Message-ID: <20040831091851.GA18746@pegasos> References: <20040831071614.GA17506@pegasos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Sven Luther X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41343FA8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 2004:99 brandon:99 brandon:99 mingw:01 lablgtk:01 magnitudes:01 followup:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:05:58AM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > > > > > > Well, speaking as a Windows-centric guy, I'd rather people just put > > > their time into good Windows support. I realize that the > > > Linux / mingw > > > > What for ? It is boring, the tools are subadequat, and any > > try to compile a > > nice ocaml/lablgtk app for windows too resulted in no more > > than a major time lose. > > I already explained why I'm stuck with Windows. Only because you chose to, nobody is ever stuck with windows. > But to offer a different philosophical take: Linux is boring too. > *Programming* is boring. I only care about the artistic results, the Well, in linux at least it just works, you have the right tools for doing real development and so on. > games I could make via programming. I'm interested in tools that make > it all less painful. Emphasis on *less* painful. There's still plenty Just go over and develop under linux, and cross compile. doing this in windows is order of magnitudes more painfull, as you noticed. > > Well, but i guess the majority of caml developers are > > compiling under linux, so ... > > So, to me that's a problem to be solved. No its not, that is how it should be. > > And things will probably change drastically from your > > current perceived situation over the next 5 years or so. > > Would be plenty happy to discuss it on ocaml-biz. > http://cgorski.org/mailman/listinfo/ocaml-biz_cgorski.org Sorry, no time for that. But let's have a followup to this 5 years from now. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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