From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3723ABC0A for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4F88pDY007525 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:08:53 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hns5P-0008VS-00; Tue, 15 May 2007 09:08:47 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:08:47 +0100 To: David Teller Cc: OCaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] labltk for tk 8.4 BETA release Message-ID: <20070515080847.GA30352@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1179179330.6092.17.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1179179330.6092.17.camel@Blefuscu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46496A93.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; labltk:01 0200,:01 yup:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 labltk:01 selections:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 data:02 structures:02 functional:02 programming:03 installed:05 On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:48:49PM +0200, David Teller wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:37 -0400, Jeffrey Loren Shaw wrote: > > Yup that link should be updated. I don't think it should be bundled with > > ocaml, however. The end-user might already have it installed, or might not > > need it. But this is a decision for the ocaml devs. > > Of course. The congratulations were for you. The wish list was for OCaml > Devs. > > > > Instead of documenting labltk, which is difficult for the beginner ocaml > > programmer anyway, make a wrapper to make it more ocaml-y. I'm not sure if > > this would be easy or possible, but coercing labltk into one style of > > programming (preferably functional) could go a long way towards making it > > easier to learn for the beginner. > > I'm currently thinking about the best way to write the equivalent of > JavaFX for OCaml : both the user-interface and the "new features" (e.g. > list comprehension, SQL-ish selections from data structures, etc.). The > user-interface part doesn't look too difficult. I'll start to work on > it... well, if I ever get time. PG'OCaml does the SQL part: http://merjis.com/developers/pgocaml Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat