From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50340BBAF for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:52:53 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Am4BAAaT/UzB/BfWlGdsb2JhbACjUAEBAgkLEREDH4gtuEyFSQSKcYMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,310,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="82168693" Received: from msa05.smtpout.orange.fr (HELO msa.smtpout.orange.fr) ([193.252.23.214]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 07 Dec 2010 10:52:52 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.63] ([83.199.119.237]) by mwinf5d20 with ME id g9ss1f00657QgZP039ssoh; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <4CFE03F3.7010606@frisch.fr> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:52:51 +0100 From: Alain Frisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gasche Cc: Sylvain Le Gall , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Pre-compiled ocaml binary for windows References: <20101203200646.GA7445@malaquias.DHCP-GERAL> <6C7D3CF0-5C04-4E51-939F-5086244DA055@inria.fr> <4CFD2259.6060200@gmail.com> <4CFDEE7E.8030000@frisch.fr> <4CFDFEA5.3000900@frisch.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; frisch:01 frisch:01 pre-compiled:01 ocaml:01 toplevel:01 labltk:01 toplevel:01 ocaml:01 beginners:01 beginners:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functions:01 alain:01 On 12/07/2010 10:42 AM, gasche wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Alain Frisch > wrote: > > The graphical toplevel does not depend on labltk, so the two issues > are really unrelated. For crashes with the OCamlWin.exe, I was > thinking about http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4399 and > http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3052, but this might be pure > FUD. The real problem is that nobody seems interested enough in this > graphical toplevel to put serious work on it. > > > I beg to differ. In my experience, the Graphics module is a wonderful > tool to get non-programming beginners interested in OCaml. I have been > in the position of teaching OCaml to beginners, and the single thing > they remember and found *fun* was displaying the mandelbrot fractal, and > then playing with different color functions to get fancy results. We were discussing the graphical toplevel (OCamlWin.exe), not the Graphics module. The two are unrelated. -- Alain