[GUI] Proposal Proposal: haskell-gui addendum to haskell standard

[seth@cql.com]

I didn't know that QT isn't free for windows.

On 22-Jan-2003 Nick Name wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:11:45 -0800
> Bryn Keller <brk@jenkon.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  If we're going to pick one GUI toolkit, I'd recommend Qt or
>>  wxWindows, both of which try to blend in with whatever OS they're on.
> 
> I hope I am not the one who's concerned with free software on this
> mailing list, but qt is not free in its windows edition. I can't write a
> GPL'ed software and tell my users to download a non free library to run
> the program.
> 
> On the other side, wxwindows is C++, it's difficult to bind to haskell.
> 
> However, in my post I did not mean "do it with gtk or die". Absolutely.
> I meant "if we design an high level interface, we already have a
> portable low level binding to use as a first backend, so the backend is
> not an immediate concern".
> 
> If gtk2 is still bad on windows, someone interested will do a binding
> for the windows API and implement a backend for the high level
> interface. And also a macos lover will do a binding and a backend for
> quartz. 
> This can be done simultaneously to the main work, there are many windows
> haskellers I see, but on unix-like systems we already have a good job
> wich should not be thrown away.
> 
> Besides, qt is implemented in a language wich supercedes C++, I don't
> think it would be easy to make an haskell binding for that.
> 
> Vincenzo
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Seth Kurtzberg
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Date: 22-Jan-2003
Time: 11:25:52

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