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From: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
To: Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:01:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130911210103.GA29283@notk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130911224117.5f1a3df4@atmarama.noip.me>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Gour wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:53:20 +0200
> Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> wrote:
> 
> > While I hope this happens, I'm not holding my breath.
> 
> Go to http://www.gtk.org/download/index.php and visit link for Linux, Windows
> and Mac OS X...you'll see that the last stable releases are:
> 
> a) 3.8 for Linux
> 
> b) 2.24.10 for Win32 and 2.22.1 for Win64 with the note: "Note that
> these 64-bit packages are experimental."
> 
> c) no packages for Mac OS X

I quite strongly disagree. That developers have to become packagers for
Windows and Mac OS X has been an unfortunate fact. It doesn't prove
anything about the stability of a software.

I actually hate that. On Windows this leads to "zlib.dll" or
"zlib1.dll". You'll find hundreds of zlib libraries with these names.
Which version, which options, which compatibility?
Binaries should be built as a whole. They need to be compatible between
them and they need to be consistent. Having software developers provide
binaries guarantees that this doesn't happen.

> > That's something I disagree with, or at least don't understand.
> > 
> > All I ask from a GUI library is a set of widget. If that is properly
> > provided, I don't see which influence the library has on the scale of
> > the application you can do.
> 
> Check the video link - the guy is explaining that GTK is no longer
> suitable for apps which need many custom widgets, but is appropriate for
> 'small apps' using "default widgets" only.

Hmm, that explains it: I don't want to roll my own widgets. I avoid it
like the plague.

-- 
Adrien Nader

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10 21:09 [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-10 21:38 ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-11  5:24   ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11  7:21     ` Kakadu
2013-09-11  8:21       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  8:14     ` Gour
2013-09-11 18:17       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 19:31         ` Gour
2013-09-11 19:53           ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 20:41             ` Gour
2013-09-11 21:01               ` Adrien Nader [this message]
2013-09-12  5:44                 ` Gour
2013-09-12  6:31                   ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12  5:36             ` Gour
2013-09-12  6:48               ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12  7:26                 ` Gour
2013-09-11 20:06         ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 20:48           ` Anthony Tavener
2013-09-11 21:04             ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12 14:40             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2013-09-12 14:51               ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-12 14:57                 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-09-12 15:04                   ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-14  3:05                 ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-14  7:10                   ` Kakadu
2013-09-14 11:37                     ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-15  8:32                       ` Kakadu
2013-09-14 23:51                   ` Francois¡¡Charles Matthieu¡¡Berenger
2013-09-11 22:17           ` [Caml-list] " Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-12 13:49             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2013-09-12 13:58               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-11  9:49     ` David MENTRE
2013-09-11 10:14       ` Kakadu
2013-09-11 15:21         ` David MENTRE
2013-09-12  1:31           ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-11 18:43         ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 18:36       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 19:34         ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11 19:45           ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 22:06             ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2013-09-12  3:25         ` Ivan Gotovchits
2013-09-12  6:41         ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12 11:49           ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-11 19:17       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11 22:03       ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2013-09-12  8:16         ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-11 12:26     ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 18:48       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 13:22     ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-11 13:33       ` Kakadu
2013-09-11 14:09         ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-11 19:36           ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 19:45             ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-12 12:55               ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 18:57       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 19:01         ` Rudi Grinberg
2013-09-11 19:15           ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11  8:10   ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  1:00 ` [Caml-list] " Francois Berenger
2013-09-11  5:07   ` rixed
2013-09-11  8:26     ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  9:23       ` rixed
2013-09-11 12:54         ` Leo White
2013-09-11 12:59           ` Gour
2013-09-11 19:06             ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11  8:16   ` Gour
2013-09-11  9:00     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-11 19:19       ` Gour
2013-11-17 20:12       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  7:38 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2013-09-11  8:20   ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11 11:42     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-18 11:42       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-18 12:24         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-20  4:47           ` Gour
2013-09-19  8:11         ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-19  8:30           ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-09-19  8:47             ` Andreas Rossberg
2013-09-20  4:51           ` Gour
2013-09-20 12:04             ` Gerd Stolpmann

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