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 RAA14131; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:58:02 +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 RAA10399 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:58:00 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from eposta.kablonet.com.tr ([62.248.102.66]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h7AFvrT06533 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:57:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 40760 invoked by uid 0); 10 Aug 2003 16:00:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 195.174.173.82) (exa@kablonet.com.tr@195.174.173.82) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Aug 2003 16:00:48 -0000 From: Eray Ozkural Reply-To: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Organization: Bilkent University CS Dept. To: Matt Gushee , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tcl/Tk and RH 9 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:57:47 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <1060394583.12630.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1060446815.10145.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20030809165912.GF21525@swordfish> In-Reply-To: <20030809165912.GF21525@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308101857.48000.exa@kablonet.com.tr> X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; eray:01 ozkural:01 caml-list:01 gushee:01 archaic:01 labltk:01 gui:01 guis:01 osiris:01 wxwindows:01 python:01 erayo:01 bilkent:01 ankara:01 kde:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Two points: 1. tcl/tk isn't obsolete 2. gtk isn't that great On Saturday 09 August 2003 19:59, Matt Gushee wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:33:41AM +1000, skaller wrote: > > Just a comment: I have just installed RedHat 9 on my box. > > Tcl/Tk is no longer a standard package, which is as it should be, > > its an old, archaic system which no longer deserves any support. > > > > Unfortunately LablTk needs it, and some Caml tools use it. > > OCamlBrowser being one. > > > > Time to move to Gtk? Alternatively, a simple GUI which can > > use either? Or even Windows or Mac style Guis? > > That might make sense. Didn't Nicolas Canass (sp?) say his Osiris > project was going to be ported to non-Windows platforms? I wonder > how that's coming along? > > Other options that might be worth looking at are wxWindows and FoX; > both, however, need libraries that are not standard on any platform. > > I would guess, though, that the political issues may be harder than > the technical ones. People in the Python community have been saying > for at least four years that something other than Tkinter should be > the standard GUI toolkit--yet Python still ships with Tkinter. > Maybe because everybody hates it equally (except for a few weirdos > like me who actually *like* it). -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara KDE Project: http://www.kde.org www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C ------------------- 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