On Saturday 05 September 2009 11:22:30 ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: > > Using a very simple analysis from > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systems, > > 97.14%[1] of the computers in the world run an OS which does not have a > > "Linux"-style package manager (very sad, but true). > > With OCaml you can distribute native code programs, so the installation > problem is relevant only to programmers.
Don't bank on it. We shipped a product called Presenta a few years ago that was written in OCaml and distributed as a native code executable for Linux. It was a complete disaster with 80% of users experiencing random segfaults and we canned the product and will never try to distribute compiled OCaml programs again. Linux is basically a complete disaster in this regard because it offers so little binary compatibility between distros. Building upon a decent VM solves this problem and many others, of course, but Linux has none. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ 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
