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Message-ID: <17183.23397.685121.515500 at karryall.dnsalias.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:28:05 +0200
From: Olivier andrieu <andrieuijm.jussieu.fr at karryall.dnsalias.org>
To: romildo at uber.com.br
Cc: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Any chance of having gtk+extra in OCaml?
In-Reply-To: <20050907094743.GA11402 at malaquias>
References: <20050907094743.GA11402 at malaquias>

 romildo@uber.com.br [Wednesday 7 September 2005] :
 >
 > There is gtk+extra (http://gtkextra.sourceforge.net/), but it does
 > not have any bindings for OCaml.  Is there any chance of having it
 > ported to OCaml? Is it difficult to make such a port?

It depends. Lots of gtk-related libraries outside of the GNOME project
are broken wrt memory management. Wrapping GTK+ is manageable because
the API has strict conventions about memory management that make it
easy to plug a garbage collector in. When a library doesn't use these
conventions, it's much more difficult to bind in a safe way (sometimes
it's just impossible).

-- 
   Olivier