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 TAA22160; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:54:03 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA21912 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:54:02 +0100 (MET) 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 UAA03571 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:56:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com (e33.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.131]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gBRJunn27303; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:56:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.32]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBRJumTl040324; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:56:48 -0500 Received: from d01ml064.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.3/NCO/VER6.4) with ESMTP id gBRJx4Fj159572; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:59:05 -0700 Importance: Normal Subject: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] mlgtk To: pascal.cuoq@inria.fr Cc: caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: "SONGSU YUN" Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:58:59 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D01ML064/01/M/IBM(Release 5.0.11 +SPRs MIAS5EXFG4, MIAS5AUFPV and DHAG4Y6R7W, MATTEST |November 8th, 2002) at 12/27/2002 02:55:31 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >> First, it seems that there's no more development activities going on. >> Is that the case ? >Yes (that is, Chinese/Korean/... "yes". English "no"), there is no >more development of mlgtk. >> I prefer mlgtk to lablgtk since it is easier to use, easier to understand >> and generates more compact code(at least on AIX system). >I prefer it for these reasons too, but none of my current projects >needs a GUI, so it's difficult for me to keep finding time to >work on it. >> The other question is about reference counting. >> I looked at lablgtk source and saw that it implemented reference counting, >> but I cound not find any reference counting code in mlgtk. >That is because mlgtk is buggy, or at least because it only works >if used as intended. I started to understand how gtk's reference >counting was supposed to work just before I started to have no >more time available available for mlgtk, so I never had time >to fix this "bug". >> If it is not, is it because the developers decided that it was not >> necessary or it just wasn't implemented ? >It's more the second one :) but everything will work fine if you >don't try to free any gtk objects (and even if you do, it's >only a memory leak, you might never notice :) ). >Do you really need it, or are you asking just out of curiosity? >I could make an effort and implement it, if you need it (and >as Sven pointed out, the source is available :) ). Thanks for the answer. I was just curious. As for doing it myself, I don't think I know OCAML/GTK well enough to do the job :). Thanks again. Notes mail - SONGSU YUN/Fishkill/IBM@IBMUS VM mail - IBMUSM09(yuns) Internet mail - yuns@US.IBM.COM Dept.; 07CA Zip; 27A IMD EastFishkill Tie Line; 533-6582 Ext; 914-894-6582 ------------------- 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