From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA28707 for caml-red; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:19:40 +0100 (MET)
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 JAA30386 for <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:48:21 +0100 (MET)
Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.6.1])
	by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eAR8mLv14556
	for <caml-list@inria.fr>; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:48:21 +0100 (MET)
Received: from lambda.u-strasbg.fr (lambda.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.90.63])
	by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02560;
	Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:47:22 +0100
Received: from luther by lambda.u-strasbg.fr with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian))
	id 140K5N-0000d6-00; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:56:29 +0100
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:56:29 +0100
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: libplot for OCaml?
Message-ID: <20001127095629.A2413@lambda.u-strasbg.fr>
References: <20001125114256.A23216@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <20001125114256.A23216@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>; from mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:42:56AM +0100
From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr

On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:42:56AM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> has anybody already considered implementing an interface to the
> libplot-library?
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils
> 
> It is very portable, knows many target "plotters" (from X-windows to
> various image formats), has lots of functionality and is thread-safe
> (i.e. you can have several independent "plotters" at once).
> 
> ADA, Python and Perl already have interfaces so it may already be
> considered as a kind of standard in this field.
> 
> I don't have time to do it right now, but if anybody wants to give it a
> try, I could imagine helping a bit. It doesn't look terribly difficult
> and may be a good exercise to try out camlidl...

Also notice, ...

I have been working on c2caml, which should become an automatic or
semi-automatic bindings generator from a C header file.

I have not really had time to work on it anymore, so the current status is
that it correctly parses C headers (even some of the GNU extension, it
correctly parses all of the gtk+ headers), but doesn't generate anything yet.

I had a TER student working on it last year, but it didn't go as far as i
hoped, and i proposed it again this year.

If anybody is interrested in working on it, i could try to setup a public cvs
repository of it, or even have it hosted at sourceforge ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther