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 AAA01379; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:46:55 +0100 (MET) 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 AAA01793 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:46:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from comtv.ru (comtv.ru [217.10.32.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA8NkrD09334 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:46:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from [10.0.66.9] ([10.0.66.9] verified) by comtv.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0) with ESMTP-TLS id 5406225; Sat, 09 Nov 2002 02:46:53 +0300 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 02:47:40 +0300 (MSK) From: malc X-X-Sender: malc@home.oyster.ru To: Sven Luther cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Windows please advise In-Reply-To: <20021108230242.GA4100@iliana> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:43:48AM +0300, malc wrote: > > Hands off Outcast please. Besides i doubt that Appeal's failure has > > anything to do with Outcast being windows only. And btw Outcast was > > instrumental in one person's switch to OCaml. > > Ok, no problem, it was just one thing that came to mind when thinking > about this, since i recently read of Appeal's demise and remembered this > discution. That said, i believe that their rendering engine could have > easily been ported, more easily that other hardware accelerated engines > of that time at least. > > That said, jean marc asked if it wasn't fine to have ocaml used > *natively* on the win32 plateform, and i believe it would be nice, but > would create the risk of win32 only ocaml programs, which is IMHO not a > nice thing to contemplate. > > > P.S. http://algol.prosalg.no/~malc/motazaar/ > > Mmm, i see it uses GTK+, it would run on linux too then ? It was developed under Linux, Windows version was, quite painful, afterthought. Btw. i advice everyone to stay as far away of GTK+ as possible(esp. under Windows) -- mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com ------------------- 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