On 29 Sep 2010, at 20:34, Steve Schafer wrote:
This is an attitude that just doesn't fly in the Windows world. Which is unfortunate, because the Windows market is HUGE compared to OS X, and STUNNINGLY HUGE compared to everything else.
The fix isn't going to be to find a developer who's willing to do the work to make Haskell+GUI more seamless under Windows. The fix is for the Haskell community--as a whole--to wake up and realize what the wxWidgets folks did a while ago: "Hey, you know what? This GUI stuff is _important_ if we want people to pay any attention to the software that we write!"
This is why, when I developed my theorem prover, I put GUI aspects top of the list I chose wxHaskell because I wanted portability Ironically, given the thrust of this thread, I got it working without too much difficulty on Windows GHC 10.6.4, latest binaries for wxHaskell - easy to install and get working I gather several of my students have successfully done Linux builds of same I switched over recently to Mac OS X (10.6), and (more irony) am having real difficulties getting it to work - installing wxHaskell is a real bear on this platform.... The GUI theorem prover - see http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/Saoithin/ (I was going to announce this project to the Haskell Community real soon now, so I guess this is as good a time as any .....)
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