On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:26:45PM +0200, Andrej Bauer wrote: > I would use batteries and would recommend it to my students if there > were any chance they would succeed installing it. In other words, > batteries is too hard to install. This may not be so on Linux, but > what about Windows (99% of my students use Windows only)?
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. Rich. [1] Fedora's tool is command-line based: you can use 'appliance-creator' or 'livecd-creator'. http://thincrust.org/ace-examples.html -- Richard Jones Red Hat _______________________________________________ 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
