From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA27380; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:06:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 FAA30835 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:06:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mz2.forethought.net (mzpi4.forethought.net [216.241.36.13]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h7536jT00017 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:06:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=swordfish) by mz2.forethought.net with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19js9t-0001Xd-0f for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:06:45 -0600 Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19js9g-0002rK-00 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:06:32 -0600 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:06:32 -0600 From: Matt Gushee To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] [ANN] GD4O Message-ID: <20030805030632.GB4910@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; gushee:01 everyone--:01 havenrock:01 findlib:01 emailed:99 noone:01 criticism:01 englewood:01 manure:01 mgushee:01 ignores:01 --lao:01 merel:01 ocaml:01 credit:98 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hello, everyone-- I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of GD4O (that's an 'O', as in OCaml), an OCaml interface to the GD graphics library. It's available at: http://havenrock.com/software/gd4o/ GD4O is based on OCamlGD 0.7, so most of the credit for this package belongs to Shawn Wagner; so far I have added only a few functions, created a more thorough test program, and created a new Makefile that installas GD4O as a Findlib package. My goal is to provide a complete and up-to-date interface to GD. I should explain briefly how this project came about. I have spent a good deal of time searching in vain for a comprehensive raster graphics library for OCaml, and I have gotten the sense from a recent discussion on this list (see the thread entitled "Graphics Frustration") that others are interested in the same thing. I had noted with interest the existence of OCamlGD, but also noted that it is quite incomplete and has not been updated in the last year. A couple of weeks ago I emailed Shawn Wagner to ask what his plans were for the package; he responded that he didn't expect to continue developing it, at least not in the near future. Since then I have emailed him again to ask if he would object to my taking over the project, but I have not heard from him again. So, technically speaking, this project is a fork--hence the new name. But I don't see any reason to expect a competition here. I'd also like to say that I am not really the best person to be doing this sort of work, since I really don't know C very well. But since noone else seems to be motivated enough to do it ... Anyway, I expect I will be needing some help in order to make this a quality package. So I welcome constructive criticism, patches, and so on from all of you. -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee@havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.) ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners