[Haskell] Haskell Xlib bindings

Mattias Bengtsson moonlite at dtek.chalmers.se
Wed Feb 7 10:48:09 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:17 +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
[snip]
>    * What about XFree86?

Is XFree86 even used anymore?

>    * What about X11 implementations on *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.?

At least BSD (the ones i know of) and Solaris x86 uses xorg as default i
think.

>    * Is XCB 100% feature-complete compared to Xlib?
> 
> I guess that XCB is not widespread enough yet to drop the X11 package now, but 
> I'd like to hear what others think. OTOH, a Haskell binding for XCB can 
> probably be generated automatically to a large degree via XSLT, if I 
> understand things correctly, which would be a big plus.
> 

This might be of interest:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2006-January/001278.html


Mattias



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