Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Complements and a couple questions

[Duncan C. <dun...@wo...>]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:47 +0100, Gour wrote:
> So, maybe some small tutorial is better than none, until we can get
> complete introductory tutorial together.

We can start with a pretty simple tutorial leading people through a
hello world program. The main work here is organising things on the
website, doing screenshots and just thinking of how best to say things
bearing in mind the target audience. We ought to think about how do we
answer a new/potential users question "where do I start, how do I write
a gtk2hs program?". So far I've not been able to give a better answer
than "look at the code to the demos" and "see the Gtk+ C tutorial on
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/".

Once we've got something very basic like that. I don't think it'll be
too hard to add extra topics over time, like how to use glade and why
you should use glade rather than writing your GUI construction code by
hand.

> otoh, let's Axel & Ducnan decide what has higher priority and I'll try
> to help according to my time & skill constraints :-)

My personal priority list is something like:

      * do a windows release (0.9.7.1)
      * get our screenshots up on the website
      * do a couple FAQ entries for the website (building from source on
        windows, building on machines without much memory) as well as
        some simple installation instructions for windows users.
      * start merging documentation produced by our new code generator
        tool
      * improve the code generator to generate properties and events
        according to our medium level api.
      * merge all the properties & events stuff
      * if there's time add a few new modules (from the code generator) 
      * do a 0.9.8 release

Oh, and at some point I was thinking of looking at the amd64 issue
again.

Duncan