[Haskell-cafe] ANN: wizards-1.0: A High level, generic library for interrogative user interfaces

[Krzysztof Skrzętnicki]

Hello,

This library looks very nice. Thank you for realeasing it! I realise it
took quite an effort to write it.

Looking from examples on Github I noticed that you use
-XOverlappingInstances. Why do you need such extension?

Best regards,
Krzysztof Skrzętnicki

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Liam O'Connor <liamoc at cse.unsw.edu.au>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> wizards is an Haskell library designed for the quick and painless
> development of interrogative programs, which revolve around a "dialogue"
> with the user, who is asked a series of questions in a sequence much like
> an installation wizard.
>
> Everything from interactive system scripts, to installation wizards, to
> full-blown shells can be implemented with the support of wizards.
>
> It is developed transparently on top of a free monad (see Swierstra's
> excellent paper on this topic at
> http://www.cs.ru.nl/~W.Swierstra/Publications/DataTypesALaCarte.pdf),
> which separates out the semantics of the program from the wizards
> interface. A variety of backends exist, including a full featured backend
> for Haskeline, a debug-friendly simpler implementation in terms of
> System.IO primitives, and a completely pure implementation modelled as a
> function from an input string to output. It is also possible to write your
> own backends, or extend the existing back-ends with new features.
>
> While both built-in IO backends operate on a console, there is no reason
> why wizards cannot also be used for making GUI wizard interfaces.
>
> The library is highly extensible - back-ends can be written or extended
> with the type system helpfully tracking what features are supported by
> which back-ends.
>
> Installation instructions and some educational examples are at the github
> page:
>
> https://github.com/liamoc/wizards
>
> Information on how to write backends or extend backends, as well as
> structured API documentation is available on Hackage:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wizards
>
> (Or, you can just run cabal haddock to generate the documentation from the
> source).
>
> Regards,
> Liam O'Connor
>
>
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