[GUI] Fruit Source

[Antony Courtney]

Thomas L. Bevan wrote:
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> Does anyone know if the FRUIT source code is freely available somewhere?
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Short answer:  Yes, there is some code available from:

   http://www.haskell.org/fruit

However, I wish to stress that Fruit is a (very) rudimentary research 
prototype, NOT a production GUI toolkit.

I'm not sure why you are interested in Fruit source code, but since 
there has been a lot of discussion about standard GUI toolkits lately, I 
thought I would throw in my opinion as the developer of one of the more 
research-oriented GUI libraries:

Much as I would love to someday see a "genuinely functional" programming 
model serve as the basis for a production GUI toolkit someday, I agree 
with the sentiments expressed by Simon and Manuel:  there are still far 
too many open research questions about both the API design and 
implementation efficiency to use such a model as the basis for a 
standard, portable production GUI toolkit library for Haskell for use in 
the near term.  If you want to produce something standard, portable, 
ubiquitous and well supported, worse is definitely better.

	-antony

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Antony Courtney
Grad. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
antony@apocalypse.org          http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony