[Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

Christopher Done writes:

On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yal wrote:

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While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I wrote my own solution. On Linux it uses xdg-open and on Windows - ShellExecute Api.

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Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

If it's not in an existing small library, yes. If I have to have a dependency on gtk2hs just to do that, I'd rather have a small library. Does it work on OS X? If not, I'm sure someone would submit a patch for that. This can also be used for opening the file browser and such, right? It's APIs in GIO library (a sub-library in gtk2hs), you just need depend on GIO don't need depend any other library.

Dmitry, it's unnecessary since GIO can do better with same experience both Windows and Linux, don't need any external program help. Infact, GIO not just call default browser for url, it can call any program to open any format. Example, you install many different PDF-Viewer in your system, it will return a Application list for *.pdf format...etc. Good news is, gtk2hs-0.12.0 has ready for release, we will wait one week, if no user report any bug of gtk2hs darcs, we will release. Then you can use it. Cheers, -- Andy