From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de>
> 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?
I answer for the two libraries I'm concerned with.
> - LablTK [ (+) more convenient than O'CamlTK
> (+) part of O'Caml 2.99 ]
This is now an integral part of the ocaml distribution, available on
both Unix and Windows (in ocaml 3.00). The interface should be stable
in the future, making it a good choice if portability and
maintainability matter.
> - lablgtk [ same a mlgtk, plus
> (-) still beta
> (+) appears(!) to have the slickest API ]
Beta does mainly mean that it may undergo API changes in the future.
It is already good enough for writing applications. The next version
will also support Windows.
This is a good choice if appearance matters, and you are ready to
eventually suffer a bit with API changes.
Regards,
Jacques
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