Alle 17:05, domenica 14 settembre 2003, Manuel M T Chakravarty ha scritto:
What makes you think that the few people in the Haskell community who are interested in building GUI infrastructure can do a better job at a cross-platform API than the masses of GUI developers for whom this is their daily bread?
I agree with you on this point, that we were wrong designing everything from scratch, but instead:
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. Vincenzo