hi all, as stated in the subject, i'm a newcomer to haskell programming: i've read some tutorials and (portions of) a couple of books and am really fascinated with the language. but my haskell coding experience is limited to toy programs and short exercises. so i decided to try my hand at a small project to really learn haskell and the functional programming mindset[1], and i would appreciate to hear your opinions and comments on some issues before i start coding: - build toolchain. i'm used to the autoconfig/automake/make tools for C/C++ projects, and to ant for Java stuff. what do haskellers use? my initial thought was using a plain Makefile with ghc, but there is also hmake and maybe other tools i am missing. what would you use? [2] - graphics toolkit. one of my programs will be a GUI. there seems to be a lot of choice here: gtk2hs looks nice (as used in hircules) and fudgets seems to have a pretty interesting and well-documented architecture (which covers also client/server programming: i'll be using a client/server architecture too) but its widgets are uglier and look alien in current linux desktops. i'd like to have a fudgets-gtk framework of sorts :) and then, there is htoolkit, Object I/O and whatnot... any recommendations? - TCP/IP stuff. i will have a client/server architecture with TCP/IP as the transport protocol. other than fudgets, i'm not aware of any haskell framework for IPC: am i missing something? - XML. i'll be handling XML documents, and HaXml seems to me an excellent candidate to cover this area, but, of course, i'm very interested in hearing of alternatives... thanks a lot for your help! cheers, jao Footnotes: [1] if that matters, the project will consist on a set of utilities for handling a document metadata database, based upon the OMF standard. [2] my project will consist of several executables, sharing a set of common libraries and, therefore, i plan to use (if possible) a non-flat directory layout. -- Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare. - Blair Houghton.