[Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Jan 28, at 0:15, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
> Although a GUI interface makes little difference to most UNIX/Linux
> users, for some Haskell beginners in the Windows/OS X world, the
> availability of a GUI interface could make the experience more
> appealing, especially at first.
>
> Given that some other functional programming languages provide a GUI
> interface for Windows/OS X users (PLT Scheme, Erlang, and O'Caml come
> to mind), if Hugs is likely to continue to have compatibility problems
> with GHC, then is there any way an interface similar to that already
> available for WinHugs could be created for GHCi?

I've seen code in the GHC codebase for Gtk+; no idea what state it's  
in or if it ever worked.  But apparently someone has given thought to  
it at some point.

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20090128/826cb9f5/PGP.bin