From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pAFMN0fv022251 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:23:00 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtsBAMrlwk5KfVK2kGdsb2JhbABChQGUdI0TgQ+BTwgiAQEBAQkJDQcUBCGBcgEBAQQSAg9LCxALCw0CAiYCAiISAQUBCgQBDQYTGwejQgqLGpF3gTCHS4EWBJQyikuDAj2DcQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,517,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="119169761" Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com ([74.125.82.182]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 15 Nov 2011 23:22:55 +0100 Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so9595402wyf.27 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:22:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.3.71 with SMTP id a7mr33157398wia.0.1321395774869; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.100.39 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:22:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1321370897.43865.YahooMailNeo@web111510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <4EC23672.7070709@gmail.com> <1321370897.43865.YahooMailNeo@web111510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:22:54 +0100 Message-ID: From: Andrej Bauer To: Dario Teixeira Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by walapai.inria.fr id pAFMN0fv022251 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to fail to install Ocaml in 18 steps Switching to a different operating system, or running a different operating system in a virtual machine is NOT the most obvious solution to normal people (everyone on this mailing list excluded). While I agree with what Dario says in principle, I am convinced that people aren't that keen on using Gnome/GTK gui inside Virtual box running on a Windows 7. Realistically, there is just no easy way to install Ocaml on Windows from what I've learned. With kind regards, Andrej On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Dario Teixeira wrote: > Hi, > >> I was shocked to learn that you cannot set it so that it only warns > >> about suspicous files. It actually instists on deleting them! I asked >> my student what Norton will do with his Ph.D. dissertation if it is >> judged to have too low a reputation, and he just faintly smiled. I >> will try to get his boss to buy him a Mac. > > But if switching to a Mac is a solution on the table, that means that your > student does not actually need OCaml running on Windows.  What they > need is OCaml, and they just happen to be using Windows as their OS. > However, if this is the case, then it seems you did pick the most convoluted > approach.  As others have mentioned, why not just install a free-as-in-beer > and easy to use virtualisation software like Virtualbox and use it to run a Linux > distro where OCaml is just an apt-get away? > > Mind you, I'm not saying you don't have a point regarding the complexity of > installing OCaml on Windows (I wouldn't know).  Nevertheless, it does strike me > that you are bending over backwards to avoid what is the most straightforward > solution in these cases: run OCaml in a Linux distro. > > Cheers, > Dario Teixeira >