On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:29:29PM +0100, Daan Leijen wrote:
What I am proposing is to use Port as a concrete proposal for how the (L) interface should look like. Not that Port is complete, or "just right", but because it exists, is still quite small, has implementations on top of both GTK and Windows, and seems suitable for implementing an (A) library (i.e. GIO). Because gtk2hs exists and is availabe on all three platforms, everybody gets the benefit of a complete, professional interface right now, so everyone should accept it as standard and not mourn about the slight differences in UI appearnce :-)
I think existance is not a very good argument. I would like to define the portable library with techniques of the Object I/O and let everyone who has a backend (or is willing to write one) participate in its creation. Basically this is what I proposed as a reply to Simon PJ. Axel.