On 7 apr 2008, at 15.36, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Max Desyatov wrote:
I'm interested in working on a library for a stateful web browsing in Haskell during Google Summer of Code.
Thomas Schilling wrote:
Also, for a GSoC proposal you should try to convince the mentors, why your project is useful for Haskell in general. So maybe you have some more arguments there, too.
There are obviously zillions of uses for automating interaction with web pages. Perhaps you are asking why not just do it Perl or Python?
One classic application is unit testing and stress testing of web- based applications. There are also various lambdabot plugins that could be vastly cleaned up and extended.
So it would be extremely useful to have an improved library for this in Haskell.
The next step would be to build various nice testing libraries on top of this for QuickCheck and various web programming frameworks, but that's already too much for one GSoC project. Something we could look forward to though.
I proposed this project last year, so I believe in its usefulness. But you just gave some very good reasons why mentors should rank Max's proposal highly. So I hope Max will incorporate the above motivations in his proposal. :) / Thomas