Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] items TODO before releasing 0.9.8

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

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:24 +0100, Axel Simon wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 03:43 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
> I wonder what msi builder tool they use for ghc.
> 
> I think they Sigbjorne uses some MS software, but I'm not sure.

I emailed him to ask.

> There are a few msi creator on Sourceforge that take an XML
> description as an input which is CVS friendly. I don't really look
> forward in spending my time on digging into MSI creation.

Yes, I know what you mean. Building an msi installer was my first task
at my job a couple years ago. Not fun (though their's was more
complicated as it was interactive and the InstallShield tool they used
was full of bugs).

> Can they share? Well, I think if the user gets the rowstride wrong they
> will see it. At least it won't crash as the MArray is bound checked.

Yes, that seems fine to me.

> GHC provides functions called unsafeRead and unsafeWrite, though...

In which case people deserve all they get!

> > Do we want to add any higher level / convenience functions or perhaps
> > wait and see what people want / use and add such things later?
> 
> We could/should a 'putPixel' function as a comment into the code. Nobody
> should want to use such a function since it's slow, but it conveys the
> concept.

That's not a bad idea. The GdkPixbuf C API reference documentation
provides code to show how a put pixel function would work (but says that
obviously people will not want to draw pixel by pixel)

Duncan