[GUI] Fruit Source

[Thomas L. Bevan]

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Just interest really, I read their paper and wanted to see some of the code.

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:54 pm, you wrote:
> 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:
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>    http://www.haskell.org/fruit
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> 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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