On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:58:58AM +0100, Philippe Lel�dy wrote: > But because they have absolutly no Unix experience, I'd like to say > them that installing Ocaml is as simple as
Your problem seems to be specific to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution whereas this mailing list is for discussion about the OCaml language. A more suited mailing list is [email protected] (Cc-ed), please follow-up to that mailing list. Anyway ... > apt-get install ocaml (for instance) This line _is_ enough, tuareg mode is not strictly necessary to use ocaml. Still, you can avoid the second step by simply telling your students to execude "apt-get install ocaml tuareg". > but it is not enough, adding some obscure lines to .emacs is necessary > b/c the old Caml mode is effective by default but Tuareg is not. Time > spent to explain that is very counter-productive to Unix new-bies. > Debian tuareg-mode does half the job by adding tuareg-mode directory to > emacs load-path, but manual addition of (load "append-tuareg") is still > necessary. I'm not an expert Emacs user, but this issue is definitely related to the tuareg-mode debian package. You can get in touch with that package maintainer and/or file a whishlist bug report against it in order to automate the emacs configuration. Ralf (or someone else of the debian ocaml maintainer with Emacs skill), could you please comment on this and other emacs related needs which could possibly by automated on tuareg-mode installation? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
