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 SAA13616; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:59:31 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA13798 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:59:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mz1.forethought.net (mzpi3.forethought.net [216.241.36.12]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h79GxTf29282 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:59:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=swordfish) by mz1.forethought.net with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19lX3w-0002Vv-OO for caml-list@inria.fr; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 10:59:28 -0600 Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19lX3m-000745-00 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2003 10:59:18 -0600 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:59:13 -0600 From: Matt Gushee To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tcl/Tk and RH 9 Message-ID: <20030809165912.GF21525@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <1060394583.12630.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20030809211030X.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <1060446815.10145.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060446815.10145.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; gushee:01 caml-list:01 archaic:01 labltk:01 gui:01 guis:01 osiris:01 wxwindows:01 python:01 englewood:01 manure:01 mgushee:01 havenrock:01 ignores:01 --lao:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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). -- 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