Hugs on Mac with CW6 ? ... and Haskell Graphics Lib?

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Use whatever tool you feel comfortable with and does the job
for you, would be my suggestion.

But, HDirect isn't solely based around IDL as a specification
language, it processes C header files too (you can specify IDL
attributes separately from the header file declarations, if needed.)
Supports both CPP GNUisms and MSisms.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alastair Reid" <reid@cs.utah.edu>
To: "Conal Elliott" <conal@microsoft.com>; "Doug Landauer (by way of Hans
Aberg)" <landauer@scruznet.com>; "Hugs Bugs" <hugs-bugs@haskell.org>;
"Sigbjorn Finne (E-mail)" <sigbjorn_finne@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 05:36
Subject: RE: Hugs on Mac with CW6 ? ... and Haskell Graphics Lib?


> > I'm surprised at the preference of GreenCard over H/Direct.  H/Direct
was
> > designed as an evolution of GreenCard based on experience with it, and
has a
> > strong foundation, as described in ICFP '98.
>
> Perhaps I should admit a certain bias: GreenCard is partly my creation so
I
> have a soft spot for it...
>
> H/Direct would be the tool of choice if you happen to have IDL
descriptions of
> the Mac graphical API.  Given Microsoft's interest in the Mac, it is
possible
> that these already exist.
>
> Lacking an IDL description, my tool of choice would be to use the FFI
directly
> and use a suitable ffi library to take care of the tedium (and/or to use
c2hs)
> GreenCard would probably never have come into existence if the current ffi
> specification had already existed.
>
> --
> Alastair Reid
>
>
>