Re: [GUI] Proposal Proposal: haskell-gui addendum to haskell standard

I didn't know that QT isn't free for windows. On 22-Jan-2003 Nick Name wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:11:45 -0800 Bryn Keller wrote:

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If we're going to pick one GUI toolkit, I'd recommend Qt or wxWindows, both of which try to blend in with whatever OS they're on.

I hope I am not the one who's concerned with free software on this mailing list, but qt is not free in its windows edition. I can't write a GPL'ed software and tell my users to download a non free library to run the program.

On the other side, wxwindows is C++, it's difficult to bind to haskell.

However, in my post I did not mean "do it with gtk or die". Absolutely. I meant "if we design an high level interface, we already have a portable low level binding to use as a first backend, so the backend is not an immediate concern".

If gtk2 is still bad on windows, someone interested will do a binding for the windows API and implement a backend for the high level interface. And also a macos lover will do a binding and a backend for quartz. This can be done simultaneously to the main work, there are many windows haskellers I see, but on unix-like systems we already have a good job wich should not be thrown away.

Besides, qt is implemented in a language wich supercedes C++, I don't think it would be easy to make an haskell binding for that.

Vincenzo

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