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 TAA13967 for caml-red; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:57:40 +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 IAA13256 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:33:46 +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 f187XjH24190; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:33:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (from luther@localhost) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA22215; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:32:46 +0100 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:32:46 +0100 From: Sven To: Pierre Weis Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: OCaml's long range graphical direction? Message-ID: <20010208083246.D22127@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> References: <20010206191902.B11976@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> <200102072130.WAA13125@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200102072130.WAA13125@pauillac.inria.fr>; from Pierre.Weis@inria.fr on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:30:10PM +0100 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:30:10PM +0100, Pierre Weis wrote: > [...] > > > I expect the Caml-TK interface to be supported (and included in the > > > standard OCaml distribution) for quite a while, but not actively > > > developed. > > The original Camltk (which is slightly different from labl/tk) is also > used and supported by Jun and me. It is stable and works very well. > > As Xavier mentioned (and as the Caml examples at > http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/Examples/oc/camltk demonstrate) Caml/tk > is a must for simple GUIs (with a slightly simpler than MMM way of > abusing of the text widget). I think this is a preocupation of various people, not only is there need to choose between gtk+ or tcl/tk, but also there is need to choose between various implementation of the bindings. But then choice is good :))) The only problem is that it involves more work to maintain all of them. > > and a gtk+ one. Both are aimed at different uses, and well, as > > Pierre said the tcl/tk bindings are not so much work, as they are > > following a stable tcl/tk. (well sortof, don't know exactly what > > it's status is with regard of the different tcl/tk versions. is > > anything above 8.0 supported ?) > > Camltk is maintained up to date: it works also with the 8.3 version of > tcl/tk, including for the Caml Light version of the library. Ok, ... i think i will look at it, and take ownership of the camltk debian package, which seems to be no more maintained and very old indeed. it still requires 8.0. Friendly, Sven Luther