On 8/1/07, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:48 -0700, David Pollak wrote:

>       * Can GHC generate stand-alone executables with all the
>         dependencies linked in such that I can distribute the single
>         file without worrying about including a bunch of DLLs/SOs? The
>         answer seems to be yes, but I wanted to confirm.

Yes, but the same is not true of any C dlls you link to, eg GUI libs
like gtk or wx.

Okay... so I'll have to include the (for example GTK2 DLLs) with the distribution...

>       * How real/solid/stable is the wxHaskell widgets package?  Is it
>         being well maintained?  Is there (okay... this is pie in the
>         sky) an GUI Builder for it?

Perhaps someone who uses wxHaskell can help you with that. I help
maintain Gtk2Hs so can tell you about that...

Gtk2Hs is well maintained imho :-) We do releases roughly every 6
months. The last one was a couple weeks ago. It has an installer for
Windows and it's included in several other platforms like debian,
fedora, gentoo, freebsd and macports.

I just grabbed a copy and installed it (on Ubuntu... my preferred development platform.)

The glade GUI builder can be used with Gtk2Hs on all platforms.

Very cool. I grabbed Glade as well. It's pretty sweet.

Both Gtk2Hs and wxHaskell support Unicode.

Excellent.

> * Is there support for SHA256 (I saw an SSLeay package which had
> support for a lot of stuff, but not SHA256)?

The Crypto package supports SHA1.

> * Are there any production Haskell-based desktop apps of note?

xmonad, an X11 window manager
VisualHaskell, a Haskell extension to VisualStudio

There are a number of programs that use Gtk2Hs or wxHaskell which you
can find linked from their websites including:

dazzle, http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/applications.html
pivotal, http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/pivotal/
himerge, http://fmap.us/himerge.html
HRay, http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste/Haskell/HRay/

Thanks!

David

Duncan