Hi,
i greatly support this project and method of its implementation. i will be a first user of your program :) i hope that that it will support uniform way to debug programs with all 3 compilers
Thanks, thats very encouraging and nice to hear!
to be exact, i think that it will be even more greater to develop this program using Haskell itself and make it OS-independent. in this way, more haskellers may participate in this project and more haskellers can use the resulting graphical environment
Indeed it would, but I fear that in opting for a cross platform toolkit like Gtk2Hs it will be impossible to add the final layer of polish and system integration that will change this from being useful to being a killer application. For example, linking with Gtk2Hs and GHC makes the binary 8Mb for hello world - the entire program so far is under 100Kb so that puts it in a whole different ballpark. Also things like drag and drop of files under Gtk2Hs don't work, and the toolbar would not be native, and therefore less pretty :) Of course, I am attempting to keep the cross platform bits and the user interaction bits separate, so hopefully it will be possible to have native ports of the system, but thats a way off yet. Someone has expressed interest in porting it to Mac. One of my friends, Mike Dodd's, is attempting to do a similar project but using Gtk2Hs - the details of which can be found at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Yhe . This is already cross platform (Win, Mac, Linux) and written in Haskell. Thanks Neil