Announce: wxHaskell, a portable GUI library.

[Daan Leijen]

Announcement: wxHaskell 0.1
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<http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net>

wxHaskell is a new portable GUI library for Haskell. The goal of the 
project is to provide an industrial strength portable GUI library, but 
without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves. 

wxHaskell is therefore build on top of wxWindows -- a comprehensive 
C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including 
GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library 
(in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with 
native look-and-feel, and it has a very active community (ranked among 
the top 25 most active projects on sourceforge).

Since most of the interface is automatically generated from the 
wxEiffel binding, the current release of wxHaskell already supports 
about 75% of the wxWindows functionality -- about 2500 methods in 500 
classes with 1200 constant definitions.

wxHaskell has been build with GHC 6.0 on Windows, MacOS X and Unix 
systems with GTK. A binary distribution is available for Windows (and
we are working on a binary release for MacOS X).

And even if you don't intend to write GUI's yourself, it will be fun 
to check out the screenshots at <http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net>.

All the best,
  Daan Leijen.