Re: [Caml-list] about OcamIL

[ben kuin <benkuin@gmail.com>]

I think the main problem is the lack of cross platform gui that looks
good on windows.

LablTk: ok only for simple gui
LablGtk:    fragile on linux, bad on windows
qt:      I once tried to create bindings for a newer qt release ( >
4.2), I didn't finished it, but I think it would be doable. The big
problem though is the huge qt dependency with this blackboxy C++/moc
thing .


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Vincent Aravantinos
<vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le 5 mai 10 à 21:16, Ed Keith a écrit :
>
>> --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Eray Ozkural <examachine@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Or use the real ocaml on a real OS
>>> (^_^)
>>>
>>
>> I do not understand UNIX bigotry.
>>
>> Yes, Unix is technically superior to Windows. But Plan 9 is technically
>> superior to Unix. But I doubt Eray is running Plan 9.
>>
>> More computers run Windows than all other OS's combined. If you want a
>> large user base you need to support Windows. If you do not care about the
>> size of your user base, write for Plan 9.
>>
>> Personalty I try to support as many systems as practical.
>>
>> It bothers me that the Ocaml community seems to consider Windows
>> developers as second class citizens. Until this changes Ocaml will never be
>> a main stream language. F# may eat it's lunch. But F# is tied to Windows,
>> Ocaml has the potential to be multi-platform. I just wish it would live up
>> to this potential.
>
> I guess you shouldn't take some stup** trollism as representing the whole
> community thinking though.
> I am not a Windows user but this kind of "Windows sucks" remark pisses me
> off.
>
> Still, it's a fact that it's hard to use ocaml on Windows but there are
> frequently some posts on this list showing that many ocamlers do care about
> Windows.
> The Ocaml Team explicitly requests some help of windows users to test the
> releases because they know it's a downside of ocaml.
> I think this shows that they really seem to care about it and try to
> improve.
>
> V.
> _______________________________________________
> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management:
> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list
> Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
>