Axel Simon <A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk> wrote,
when I first asked Manuel (author of gtk+hs) if it is ok to make my Gtk binding public, he said something along the lines of "I can't keep you from making it public" and "I am not going to stop gtk+hs because of this".
Just for the record, what I said is that I have neither intention nor right to keep you from making it public. More code is a Good Thing.
So it seems we are all waiting for the critical user mass that makes our own beloved GUI library (binding) the standard GUI library. For the sake of Haskell, we can only hope that this will actually happen one day. A sad side-effects of this is that most of us GUI developers waste a tremendous amount of time.
While a graphics library supported on all Haskell systems and running on all platforms is useful, having a whole spectrum of libraries available is the standard mode of operation in almost all programming languages. Any standardised graphics library will be a compromise that is usable only for relatively simple GUIs. Having said this, we started on a standard library a while ago, but not much progress has been made. For details, see http://haskell.org/communities/11-2001/html/report.html#sect4.3.1 Feel free to subscribe to gui@haskell.org and to revive the discussion. This btw is a good moment to take this thread of the main list to gui@haskell.org Cheers, Manuel