On Tue, 6 May 2003 21:59:59 +0100
Glynn Clements
This sounds as if it might boil down to only allowing that which is allowed on all platforms, which is too restrictive.
Why? I think, instead, that there needs to be a core, as restricted as it has to, that really works (in the sense that it respects the specification) on all platforms, (without emulation of features, of course). This will be the expected way for a programmer to create simple GUIs for haskell programs. These GUIs will be simple indeed, but they will surely feature menu bars, dialog boxes, text widgets and file open/save dialogs, wich is sufficient for many applications. The CGA should also provide simple means to create extensions wich work on a subset of the supported platforms. For example, xaw has no panel, while windows, gtk and kde (and macosx?) support applications in the panel or systray or whatever they call them. Windows allows for more than one menubar ecc. So if a programmer is going to work on a subset of the supported library, he will use the allowed extensions, like "more menubars". I think that this is the goal of the CGA, but since you seem to think differently, it's time to ask ourselves what are the goals, and to write them down, (BTW, the "mission statement" speaks about an intersection of features). V. -- Fedeli alla linea, anche quando non c'è Quando l'imperatore è malato, quando muore,o è dubbioso, o è perplesso. Fedeli alla linea la linea non c'è. [CCCP]