Norton is a notorious piece of malware and has little to do on a student machine.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jonathan Protzenko < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue 15 Nov 2011 10:43:39 AM CET, Andrej Bauer wrote: > >> I would like to report on a recent experience of a student of mine who >> is starting to learn Ocaml. His first taks was to get Ocaml installed >> on his Windows 7. The student previously had no trouble installing >> Java, Eclipse, erlang, and an erlang plugin for Eclipse. >> >> 1. He tried to install with the binary installer for Windows. Norton >> Antivirus told him the installer has too low a reputation and deleted >> it. >> > So that looks like the major pain point. Any advice on how to make sure > the installer is Norton-compliant? > > 2. He installed the source, which meant he just unpacked it someplace. >> 3. He installed one of the Ocaml plugins for Eclipse, I think it was >> the fpeclipse one. >> 4. The plugin complained that it can't find Ocaml, even though he told >> it where he unpacked the source. >> >> Then I came in. I realized he just unpacked the source, asked him if >> he tried the binary installer, and he told me the antivirus story. So >> we went on: >> >> 5. We deleted the source. >> 6. We installed Mingw. >> 7. We disabled Norton Antivirus and installed Ocaml with the binary >> installer. >> 8. Eclipse stopped working. >> 9. I diagoned the problem relatively quickly: the Ocaml installer or >> maybe MinGW destroyed the PATH environment variable. >> 10. We spent some time restoring PATH to a correct value. >> > I've had reports about that, I'm going to build a new version of the > installer that hopefully doesn't have this issue. Was the PATH really long? > > jonathan > > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/**wws/info/caml-list<https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list> > Beginner's list: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/**ocaml_beginners<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners> > Bug reports: > http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-**bugs<http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs> > > -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
