Hi, Your problem is simplified by the fact you already have dual boot machines (if not, Richard's live CD idea is always a good option). Unix is Ocaml's natural habitat, and some of the problems you mentioned (like symlinks for Ocamlbuild) would simply go away if you boot into Ubuntu.
I got the impression your students are not too familiar with Unix. Well, if that's the case I think in the long term they can only benefit by being exposed to it. I once had to teach 3rd year Compsci students the fundamentals of Unix programming in C. Much to my surprise, some of them didn't even know how to use basic shell commands or to invoke gcc! I guess my predecessors had sheltered them too much from the "big bad Unix". Now, I understand you may be reluctant to spend valuable class time teaching them the rudiments of Unix, but I reckon that if you provide them with the relevant configuration files they can be up and running in less than half an hour. And I bet that some of them may even discover that they prefer Unix. Cheers, Dario _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
