Re: OCaml curses?
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:52:18PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Have Debian considered packaging a curses/ncurses binding?
>
> I did in the past, but gave up due to the lack of a "reliable" upstream.
> I was aware of ocaml-tmk you are mentioning (which seems to be quite
> dead ...) and of the curses example used in the OCaml manual for showing
> how to use the C/OCaml glue code.
>
> > I intend to fork this project to create a stable upstream which both
> > Debian and Fedora can use, unless you know of another binding which I
> > should be using instead.
>
> Why forking? Have you tried contacting the author and asking him to
> become a member of the Savannah project? Seems to be a better start to
> me.
I did -- ages ago. Better ask him again.
BTW, I need this because we will hopefully start to ship some
OCaml-based tools in Fedora. With any luck starting here:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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