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 CAA15406; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:41:49 +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 CAA27666 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:41:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mz1.forethought.net (mzpi3.forethought.net [216.241.36.12]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h7B0fkT17896 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:41:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=swordfish) by mz1.forethought.net with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19m0kr-0003Q5-08 for caml-list@inria.fr; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:41:45 -0600 Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19m0kg-0000Oi-00 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:41:34 -0600 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:41:29 -0600 From: Matt Gushee To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Tcl/Tk and RH 9 Message-ID: <20030811004129.GB32383@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <1060394583.12630.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3F35A58E.3030804@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> <1060550794.6174.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200308110215.42114.exa@kablonet.com.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308110215.42114.exa@kablonet.com.tr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; gushee:01 caml-list:01 eray:01 ozkural:01 python:01 lousy:01 facto:01 distro:01 toolkit:01 xfree:01 englewood:01 manure:01 mgushee:01 havenrock:01 ignores:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:15:42AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: > I must point out that skaller's claims are factually wrong in his post that I > replying to. tkinter is the python bindings to tk. It's normal that it isn't > included in that standard lousy 1 CD red hat installation. > > Debian package: > python2.3-tk - Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python (v2.3) > > tcl/tk is *not* the same thing as tkinter. Ah, yes ... being a Python programmer, and a former Tcl programmer, I should have noticed that myself. > Besides, Red Hat is *not* the de facto linux distro. There are maybe 100 > distros right now. Quite true, but he was referring spefically to the enterprise market. Red Hat is arguably the de facto standard for large organizations in the Anglo world (which I am well aware is not the whole world, but it's where Monsieur Skaller and I both live). > GTK on the other hand, isn't the top notch toolkit out there. The technically > superior toolkit is Qt *grin* Hmph. I suppose. I personally don't care for it because it's very slow on older machines, and causes XFree86 to lock up on some. Then there's the licensing issue on Windows. But better-designed? I guess it probably is. -- 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