-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You know, I love that idea. I've been meaning to use it for some of my projects and keep forgetting about it. Thanks for reminding me,
Peng On Friday 26 September 2008 10:31:40 am Richard Jones wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:52:33PM +0200, Andrej Bauer wrote: > > My teaching asistant showed the students how to do this, but it was only > > partially successful, not to mention that this required extra > > configuration. _Any_ initial configuration is a big pain, even just > > putting a line in .emacs is a challenge ("Where is this file?", "How can > > it have just an extension and no name?", "Why is the extension longer > > than three letters", etc.) > > I think I may have suggested this the last time, but is some sort of > bootable live CD / live USB key an option? Our livecd-creator tool is > especially flexible: you could build a live CD / key which has all the > right packages installed and all the configuration files in the right > place and starts up the editor of your choice when they log in. > > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fedora-livecd/index.h >tml http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo > > Persistence (of files in the project) is a problem but maybe they can > be encouraged to save project files to a network share or on to a USB > key. > > Rich. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI3PZpfIRcEFL/JewRAppxAJ9nDJZQzbl8jj5cyNeXup/OP/E5/ACfS88c +VOTtD2kfFZQ7Lnna+GzOyw= =mOfZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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