Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Windows please advise

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:17:36AM +0100, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
>  Sven Luther [Saturday 9 November 2002] :
>  > > Perhaps some of the shortcomings are fixed with 2.x, but i doubt
>  > > it, after poking at the sorces a while back it felt horribly
>  > > misdesigned, but i wont elaborate on this.
>  > 
>  > What about using ocamlsdl for interface ?
> 
> That's not the same thing : SDL is not an interface toolkit, just a
> low-level hardware access API. Basically, it has only 2 functions :
> `blit' and `poll_events' (the S in SDL is for "simple", remember).

Mm, i am not really all that familiar with ocamlSDL, nor SDL, but i
guess you could build a ocaml based toolkit on top of it, could you not ?

That said, i don't know how efficient it would be, mmm, have to look at
how OcamlSDL handle surfaces.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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