Dear all, As you may know, the ICFP conference and Haskell workshop are held at the end of August in Uppsala, Sweden. I don't know how many of you will attend, but maybe we can organise a (small) meeting of people interested in GUI's over there and talk about the future of GUI's in Haskell. Maybe even as part of the Haskell workshop? I think it would be very good to talk with people in person, and maybe there is even room for giving demos or short presentations -- depending on time, space, and the number of people able to attend. I am going on a holiday for the next three weeks so I am not able to reply on this message, but maybe if enough people are interested we could discuss a time and place later on. (maybe Axel can keep track of who could attend or not?) Well, I hope something can be arranged, and if so, I will certainly be there :-) All the best, and good holidays, Daan.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Daan Leijen wrote:
Dear all,
As you may know, the ICFP conference and Haskell workshop are held at the end of August in Uppsala, Sweden. I don't know how many of you will attend, but maybe we can organise a (small) meeting of people interested in GUI's over there and talk about the future of GUI's in Haskell. Maybe even as part of the Haskell workshop?
Daan, there is indeed the intention of discussing future GUI development for Haskell. Apologies that this is not more widely known. There will be a discussion at the end of the Haskell Workshop (the Future of Haskell discussion) and on Friday during the Haskell implementors meeting. I am there for more discussions on Saturday. I think Wolfgang Thaller is coming, I am not sure about David Sands (it's a long way for him). For me the creation of a Common GUI API is still a goal, despite the fact that the discussion went quiet during the last months (due to high work load and motivation, at least on my side). In hintsight this was a very negative development as it encouraged people to follow their own convictions and implement their ideas in the hope that their approach is adopted by the masses. I hope we will find some form of consensus. Probably not yet on an API but on how to proceed. I thought we reached that consensus in April when I gave a resumee on what the CGA is all about. The proposal was in turn based on the voices here on the mailing list. In will try to propose some API to create application windows which complies to the CGA goals. This could give more food for further discussions and the viability of the CGA approach. I do indeed look forward to meet anybody interested in GUIs and Haskell in Uppsala/Stockholm. I'll see you there, Daan! Cheers, Axel.
Il 09:47, giovedì 24 luglio 2003, Axel Simon ha scritto:
For me the creation of a Common GUI API is still a goal, despite the fact that the discussion went quiet during the last months (due to high work load and motivation, at least on my side).
We are all involved in university, and university makes you busy right in may/june/july, and in august people go on holiday. In september I am sure that the work will continue. In hintsight this was a very negative
development as it encouraged people to follow their own convictions and implement their ideas in the hope that their approach is adopted by the masses.
I see that only Daan worked this summer, and wxwindows bindings are just a good thing. I don't think anybody is still willing to make the CGA his own way :)
In will try to propose some API to create application windows which complies to the CGA goals. This could give more food for further discussions and the viability of the CGA approach.
Given the fact that htoolkit, gtk*hs and wxhaskell are active projects, I think that we should try to abstract a common API from these three libraries, and to make this API comply to the CGA goals. Or else just surrender to the fact that wxwindows is easier, and that they have done the same work we should do, I don't know. Vincenzo
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