[GUI] Mission Statement

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj@microsoft.com
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:46:20 -0000


Good start.  I have one other suggestion: put the document in the CVS
repository (haskell-report/gui, say.  We already have
haskell-report/report and haskell-report/ffi)
That way participants can modify typos directly, add comments etc.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Axel Simon [mailto:A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk]
| Sent: 03 March 2003 23:56
| To: gui@haskell.org
| Subject: [GUI] Mission Statement
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| Hi,
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| I tried to formulate a Mission Statement and I invite people to review
it.
| It is Section 3 in the same document in which I gathered initial
opinions:
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| http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/as49/poll.pdf
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| It basically says what the Common GUI API is. In my opinion it would
be
| beneficial for us to agree on something like this statement. Otherwise
I
| fear people will restart discussions on topics for which we already
| reached a consensus.
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| Section 4 contains some comments from the GUI programmer perspective.
| Comments on this are welcome as well.
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| In the near future I will browse through the achieves and extract
| opinions on the technical topics in Section 5. Before we agree on
anything
| there, I think it would be a good idea to agree on the core. Daan, is
the
| last version of the GIO core you posted what you propose as core? If
so, I
| will add it to the document for scrutinization.
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| Thanks for comments,
| Axel.
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