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Why don't you use batteries?
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Edgar Friendly
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Date: | 2009-09-03 (23:13) |
From: | Philippe Wang <philippe.wang.lists@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? |
I am not sure my answer is relevant, but here it is : The ratio (time needed to install&learn&use it) / (time saved) has to be interesting (close to zero). For me, at the moment, this ratio is close to infinite. However, I do hope to use it someday. Cheers, Philippe On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like batteries' adoption isn't quite as thorough as expected. > We in the batteries devel team would love to know why you don't use > batteries. Here's some of our guesses: > > 1) I *do* use batteries > 2) It's not 1.0 yet, I'll try it then > 3) It makes my executables too big > 4) It's too hard to install (dependencies, godi failures) > 5) It's difficult to compile against > 6) It doesn't work on my platform > 7) It uses camlp4 > 8) Other (please explain) > > Respond in public if appropriate, respond directly to me if you want. > Now's a good time to think about where batteries is going and how it's > getting there. > > E