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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576ACBB84 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:47 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8DAAOP3EjAXQIniGdsb2JhbACTHwEBARUiqUqBZA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,314,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="29623589" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2008 16:31:47 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8QEVkSx015078 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:46 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8DAAOP3EhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACTHwEBARUiqUqBZA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,314,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17385749" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 26 Sep 2008 16:31:45 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KjEM8-0001rj-U6; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:40 +0100 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:40 +0100 To: Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com Cc: Caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching ocaml programming Message-ID: <20080926143140.GA6627@annexia.org> References: <48DCC7B8.4070700@fmf.uni-lj.si> <4a708d20809260444x175f4b89o6953140073c1c2a7@mail.gmail.com> <48DCCD01.6060906@fmf.uni-lj.si> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48DCCD01.6060906@fmf.uni-lj.si> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 48DCF252.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0200,:01 andrej:01 emacs:01 wiki:01 26,:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 partially:02 programming:03 library:03 fri:05 usb:94 usb:94 problem:05 On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:52:33PM +0200, Andrej Bauer wrote: > My teaching asistant showed the students how to do this, but it was only > partially successful, not to mention that this required extra > configuration. _Any_ initial configuration is a big pain, even just > putting a line in .emacs is a challenge ("Where is this file?", "How can > it have just an extension and no name?", "Why is the extension longer > than three letters", etc.) I think I may have suggested this the last time, but is some sort of bootable live CD / live USB key an option? Our livecd-creator tool is especially flexible: you could build a live CD / key which has all the right packages installed and all the configuration files in the right place and starts up the editor of your choice when they log in. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fedora-livecd/index.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo Persistence (of files in the project) is a problem but maybe they can be encouraged to save project files to a network share or on to a USB key. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat