Hi, I think there's a huge flaw in the Haskell design: if you conceive such a powerful and expressive programming language, one that empowers even the most ignorant computer user to write complex applications, instead of sticking to basic shell scripting - the only domain graspable by such stupid pseudo-coders -, well you end up with messages like this one flooding the mailing list you are providing for your users. This is what I call inevitability... To make a short story long, I needed some client for the Audacious media player, something I could use to remote control it and, since I'm addicted to Haskell, instead of surfing the web to find a suitable client I surfed the web to find the API documentation. With the FFI, in a matter of half an hour I had the client with all the commands I needed. (The long introduction was written just to let you know that you'd better not waste too much time with what follows...;-) So far so good, but, since everything was so easy, I thought: "Why not packaging a library (and the client) for Hackage? Maybe others may be willing to use it, maybe..." And then the problems start, problems due to my basic ignorance of the C language ("How comes you dare to import in Haskell functions written in a language you don't even understand?" you should replay!). Basically there are two C types I'm having problem with: 1. GList: even though I read the gtk2hs code I do not exactly understand how to create a GList to feed to this function: void xmms_remote_playlist_add(gint session, GList * list); As far as I understand this function takes a session number and a list of files' names. Still I seem not to be able to create a wrapper function around the imported one. 2. what a "gchar ** list" is? As far as my C goes, it should be an array of strings, right? What should I use on the Haskell side, newArray? void xmms_remote_playlist(gint session, gchar ** list, gint num, gboolean enqueue); 3. c2hs v. hsc2hs? Which should I prefer? In c2hs I write {#pointer * GList#}. What is the equivalent in hsc2hs? 4. As I said, I solved my personal problem: I imported enough functions to create the client I needed. Releasing the library is just something I would like to do, to give something back to the Haskell community. So this is something useful if I can provide robust and well designed code. This is a name space question: what is the name of the exported module? Sound.XMMS, Sound.XmmsRemote? Is the some kind of convention I should be referring to? Sorry if I was too long. Moreover I'm asking help I need just to publish a piece of software that is probably useless. Do not waste your time. But if you do, well... thank you, I really appreciate. Andrea