Re: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell.org Google Summer of Code 2013] Approved Projects

indeed, i'm the principal mentor for this project, though as mentioned Ian-Woo will hopefully be helping out too. I'm going to *help* focus the project on being a tool thats not focused on QT, though if something nice can be worked out in that direction, great! indeed, I suspect Edward, Ian-Woo and I will spend some small amount of time at HackPhi trying to figure out some good avenues of attack to make this a successful project that is used by the community and as actively maintained. cheers -Carter On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Edward Kmett wrote:

When submissions are put in, there is a way for mentors to talk to students to ask for more details. Those don't show up in the published abstract you can see at the end.

The discussion shifted towards focusing on getting things to a point where Haskell can meaningfully use SWIG rather than on Qt per se but it is good to keep such a concrete goal in mind when working on something as abstract as SWIG.

I agree that Qt has a somewhat horrible API. =)

-Edward

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:34 PM, harry wrote:

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There should be a link from the google-melange website, but one slight shift in focus is on either getting SWIG bindings or possibly even using Ian-Woo Kim's C++FFI tools. Carter may be able to go into more detail.

There's almost no information in the google project abstract. My concern is that the problem isn't generating the bindings (as I've said, that's been done twice before). It's that Qt's slots-and-signals are horrible to use from the Haskell side. If the student hasn't already got a good idea of how to solve this, I fear that this project will be just generate another unusable set of bindings.

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