[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Buster 0.99.1, a library for application orchestration that is not FRP

[minh thu]

Funny ... I never write an url in a mail : I type it in firefox (so I
actually check it) then copy/paste it.

2009/4/2 Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.heard at gmail.com>:
> Check links...  god.  http://vis.renci.org/jeff/buster  (can you tell
> I was up till 3am last night?)
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.heard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes,sorry.  vis, not vs. http://vis.renci.org/buster
>>
>> It is a bit like grapefruit's circuits, but where Grapefruit circuits
>> describe the flow of events from place to place, Buster never does.
>> Events exist for all behaviours, to be selected by name, group, or
>> source.  The other major difference is the |~| or "beside" operator,
>> which describes concurrent application of behaviours.
>>
>> A last but somewhat minor thing is that the Event type is fairly
>> general, allowing for multiple data to be attached to a single event
>> and this data to be of many of the standard types (Int, String,
>> Double, ByteString, etc) as well as a user-defined type.  Of course,
>> such an event type could be defined for other FRP frameworks as well.
>>
>> -- Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, minh thu <noteed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's vis instead of vs:
>>> http://vis.renci.org/jeff/buster/
>>>
>>> 2009/4/2 Peter Verswyvelen <bugfact at gmail.com>:
>>>> Sounds vaguely like Grapefruit's circuits, but I could be very wrong...
>>>> The link you provided seems to be broken?
>>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.heard at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Read more about it on its webpage: http://vs.renci.org/jeff/buster
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it’s to solve a particular problem.  And yes, this is a rough
>>>>> draft of an explanation of how it works.  I’ve not even really
>>>>> solidified the vocabulary yet, but I have this module which couches a
>>>>> large, abstract, interactive (both with the user and the system),
>>>>> multicomponent application in terms of a bus, inputs, behaviours, and
>>>>> events.
>>>>>
>>>>>    * Time is continuous and infinite.
>>>>>    * An event is a static, discrete item associated with a particular
>>>>> time.
>>>>>    * The bus is the discrete view of event in time at an instant.
>>>>>    * A widget is an IO action that assigns events to a particular
>>>>> time based only upon sampling the outside world (other events and
>>>>> behaviours are irrelevant to it).  e.g. a Gtk Button is a widget, a
>>>>> readable network socket is an widget, the mouse is an widget, the
>>>>> keyboard is an widget, a multitouch gesture engine is a widget.
>>>>>    * A behaviour is a continuous item — it exists for the entire
>>>>> program and for all times — which maps events on the bus to other
>>>>> events on the bus.  It is an IO action as well — where widgets only
>>>>> sample the outside world and are in a sense read only, behaviours
>>>>> encapsulate reading and writing.
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