Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell vs. HToolkit

[Gour <go...@ma...>]

Daan Leijen (daa...@xs...) wrote:

Hi Daan!

It's my 1st post to the list and I want to thank you for wxhaskell.

After seeing David's darcs I've become interested in Haskell - even to the
extent to learn it :-)

Since I was/am interested in Ruby & wxRuby project, it is great to be able to
use Haskell with wxWindows library :-))

> It is a rather unfortunate situation that in this small community
> there are now two libraries that try to do the same thing :-( 

What could be the size of Haskell community in comparison with Ruby?

> I don't know what to do about this, and maybe we should just leave
> it as it is (although I would love to have Krasimir as a co-developer,
> he is an excellent programmer :-).

I'm glad that you are taking pragmatic approach - better to have something
stable (like wxhaskell), than to wait for the "pure FP" solution.

As far as I can see, Haskell is great language and it needs more real-world
applications to draw the attention of new users/programmers.

David's darcs is the prime example of this and I'm sure that it will bring
many souls into Haskell community.

At the end I just want to inform you that I put together some ebuild for
Gentoo,but since the current version has some bugs it cannot build properly, so
I am waiting for some fix and then I can send wxhaskell.ebuild for Gentoo to
the list for inspection before creating account on Gentoo's bugzilla so it can
be included into Portage tree.

Please, bear in mind, however, that I'm total newbie in Haskell, as well in
wxhaskell :-)

However, I'm ready to learn, but before that I have to finish some
seminar/workshop and then I'm going to start with Crafting FP.

Sincerely,
Gour

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