On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Richard Jones<r...@annexia.org> wrote: > Give them a live CD. > > There are various online projects where you can create live CDs with a > custom set of packages via a webpage.[1] > > A live CD is actually better than relying on them trying to install > something under Windows, because you're guaranteeing a consistent > environment. And you can provide them with customized bits too (like > the coursework!) > > If you provide the live CD as both a physical CD and a downloadable > ISO, they can even run it virtualized so they don't need to reboot.
This may be a nice longer-term goal for Batteries and/or Community OCaml. Providing a livecd or perhaps a ready-to-go virtual machine image would make it much simpler for folks with problems (4) and (6) to try out both OCaml and Batteries in a known-functional environment. Hez -- Hezekiah M. Carty Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science _______________________________________________ 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
