On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Andrej Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Recent discussions on how to improve the Ocaml-on-windows situation > are very welcome, but I see a lot of tech-speak and little feeling for > the users, who care just about one thing: to have a click & install > distribution of Ocaml that actually works. > > Keep this in mind: 90% of potential Ocaml users are on Windows, and > they never heard of Mingw or Cygwin, and they never used a command > prompt. > > It doesn't matter if the distribution is incomplete. It doesn't matter > what is under the hood.
There's another use case for a good OCaml-on-windows - people who want to write once and deploy everywhere. For that, it matters very much if the distribution is incomplete. I agree that a nice, beginner-friendly package would be a plus, though, ideally combined with a lightweight ide that is preconfigured to find the compiler in the same place that the installer puts it. martin -- 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
