The Haggis User Interface System
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This directory contains Haggis, a user interface framework for the
lazy functional language Haskell. This is the first public release,
see ANNOUNCE for further details.

Haggis is a graphical user interface framework for the lazy functional
language Haskell, using the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) and its
concurrent extensions (aka. Concurrent Haskell). Haggis interfaces
with the X Window system (X11R5/X11R6), and compiles under most
platforms supported by GHC, see

  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html - compiler info
  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/haggis   - Haggis home

Documentation:

* INSTALL - instructions of what's required to compile and install
  the system. 

* doc/refm/*

  texinfo sources for the Haggis manual, see doc/refm/README for
  how to convert the texinfo files into dvi, info, html etc.
  formats.


Acknowledgments
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The Haggis system has been a long time in gestation, and a number of
people have made valuable suggestions along the way: 

 * All the people who attended the GUIFest'95 at the Dept. of
   Computing Science, Glasgow University. Big thanks to everyone,
   in particular to Enno Scholz and Rob Noble for valuable comments.
 
 * Alastair Reid for advice and suggestions on v. early incarnations of
   Haggis.

 * Major kudos to G082 Heroes Will Partain and Jim Mattson for
   patiently dealing with my ghc queries, especially Jim for
   implementing the support for concurrent threads.

 * Dave Turner for many a good discussion on implementing user
   interface abstractions.

Thanks!

Sigbjorn Finne,	sof@dcs.gla.ac.uk, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sof/