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Re: [ITA] ocaml 3.12.0


On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:40:43PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Am 07.09.2010, 16:42 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:03:13AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 15:48 +0200, Damien Doligez wrote:
>>>> 1. The tcl/tk bindings: they don't work out of the box with Cygwin's
>>>>    tcl/tk, and I don't think there is much demand anyway.
>>>
>>> Interesting, given that OCaml presumes that Cygwin's tcl/tk is Win32
>>> (which it currently is), but Ports' X11 tcl/tk works with OCaml with
>>> some patches:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ports;a=tree;f=lang/ocaml
>>>
>>> Given the recent issues on the list, I think it's about time I ITA
>>> tcl/tk.
>>
>> I know that it isn't obvious but I really am still here and that sorta
>> means that you can't take tcl/tk away just yet.
>>
>> I have been trying to talk to the insight maintainer about what to do
>> with tcl/tk but he hasn't been really responsive and I haven't been
>> extremely motivated to push the issue.
>
>Insight is dead for all practical purposes, but Tcl/Tk in Cygwin depending  
>on X11 rather than Win32 would be major regression. Not that I'd have time  
>to help though.

This has already been decided.  I was just waiting for some sign of life
from my friend the insight maintainer.

I guess I'll go ahead and pull insight from the release.  That should
make things easier.

cgf


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