From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA21123 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:53:23 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <200002221753.SAA21123@pauillac.inria.fr> Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA00381 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:45:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13926 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:44:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from modem-179.fluvoxamine.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.207.179] helo=toy.william.bogus) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12NGYW-0003F6-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:44:53 +0000 Received: (from williamc@localhost) by toy.william.bogus (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA08806; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:41:06 GMT Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:41:06 GMT Message-Id: <200002221141.LAA08806@toy.william.bogus> From: William Chesters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Preferred GUI Toolkit for O'Caml 3? In-Reply-To: <6830.951153768@saul.cis.upenn.edu> References: <14509.20226.13985.265187@heplix4.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> <6830.951153768@saul.cis.upenn.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under Emacs 20.2.1 Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:53:23 +0100 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr Benjamin C. Pierce writes: > We in the Unison group are also about to embark on a major UI redesign > and have been wondering which toolkit to use. Besides Thorsten's > points, there are two more that are critical concerns for us: > > * seamless portability (Unix and Win32) > * ability to build statically linked binaries (this is a pretty > big drawback to the Tk-based solutions) > > Comments on these points as well as the others would be very useful. There's always QT. It's nice to work with (at least in C++), very widely used and comprehensive (because of KDE), and was written from the start to be cross-platform (X & Win). NB it is uncontroversially free these days.