Preferred GUI Toolkit for O'Caml 3?

From: Thorsten Ohl (ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 14:54:10 MET

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    I soon have to do major surgery (= an almost complete rewrite) on a
    graphical user interface, currently in O'CamlTK.

    Since retargeting to incompatible GUIs is such a boring job, I'd like
    to hear which toolkit do you see in your tea leafs as the future
    toolkit of choice?

       - O'CamlTK [ (-) will be superseded by LablTK (I guess)
                       (-) inconvenient (no polymorphic variants) ]

       - LablTK [ (+) more convenient than O'CamlTK
                       (+) part of O'Caml 2.99 ]

       - mlgtk [ (+) Gtk+ is nicer than Tk (and no-Tcl is nicer than Tcl)
                       (-) is it ported to everything but the kitchen sink? ]

       - lablgtk [ same a mlgtk, plus
                       (-) still beta
                       (+) appears(!) to have the slickest API ]

    If you don't want to step on someone's toes, you can send me mail,
    since I have no intention to start a flame war.

    Merci,
    -Thorsten 

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