[Haskell-cafe] Loading bitmap with xlib

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 2/2/11 04:03 , Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> Conrad Parker <conrad <at> metadecks.org> writes:
>> On 31 January 2011 21:40, Francesco Mazzoli <f <at> mazzo.li> wrote:
>>> Francesco Mazzoli <f <at> mazzo.li> writes:
>>> At the end I gave up and I wrote the function myself:
>>> http://hpaste.org/43464/readbitmapfile
>>
>> cool ... the listed maintainer for the Xlib bindings is
>> libraries <at> haskell.org. Perhaps you could prepare a patch and send it
>> there? (does anyone know if there is an actual maintainer?)
>>
> I will send a patch, but I'm sure there must be a reason behind the
> fact that those functions were not included, even if I can't see it.

Pretty much what the comment says.  Graphics.X11 was never really a complete
set of bindings, just what people needed at the time.  The "Extras" stuff in
there was driven by xmonad development, for example (and named so because
originally it was a separate library before it got folded in, so the module
names were difficult to change while maintaining compatibility).  Dealing
with structs in the FFI is painful enough that I can easily imagine someone
saying "we don't need those, let someone else figure it out" --- which you
have done.  Patch away.

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