Re: Future of Haskell: GUI development

Nick Name <[email protected]> wrote,

> Alle 17:05, domenica 14 settembre 2003, Manuel M T Chakravarty ha 
> scritto:
> > I think we are better off by piggy-backing on a major
> > cross-platform effort driven by a large developer community
> > than by wasting our time on trying to solve problems that
> > the experts couldn't crack so far.
> 
> What about just taking wxwin, feature by feature, and give it a more 
> haskell-like view? (note that this has to be done anyway, and that Daan 
> is doing just that alone). This means
> 
> - supporting wxhaskell in primis
> 
> - work for some time, wich can be short or long depending on how much 
> free time people have
> 
> - reuse the design decisions of wxwin in the large, but be able to make 
> minor changes like adjusting the menu layout of macosx
> 
> - be able to make a quick binding to other libraries like qt or dialog 
> directly in haskell, if there ever is a qt or dialog binding for 
> haskell of course.

Seems like a lot of work with little gain.  Keep in mind
that wxWindows is a moving target.  Just tracking all their
improvements is going to be major work.  Who is going to do
that in the long run?

Manuel