Duncan,<br><br>Many thanks to you as well!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Duncan Coutts</b> <<a href="mailto:duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk">duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:48 -0700, David Pollak wrote:<br><br><br>> * Can GHC generate stand-alone executables with all the
<br>> dependencies linked in such that I can distribute the single<br>> file without worrying about including a bunch of DLLs/SOs? The<br>> answer seems to be yes, but I wanted to confirm.
<br><br>Yes, but the same is not true of any C dlls you link to, eg GUI libs<br>like gtk or wx.</blockquote><div><br>Okay... so I'll have to include the (for example GTK2 DLLs) with the distribution...<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> * How real/solid/stable is the wxHaskell widgets package? Is it<br>> being well maintained? Is there (okay... this is pie in the<br>> sky) an GUI Builder for it?<br><br>Perhaps someone who uses wxHaskell can help you with that. I help
<br>maintain Gtk2Hs so can tell you about that...<br><br>Gtk2Hs is well maintained imho :-) We do releases roughly every 6<br>months. The last one was a couple weeks ago. It has an installer for<br>Windows and it's included in several other platforms like debian,
<br>fedora, gentoo, freebsd and macports.</blockquote><div><br>I just grabbed a copy and installed it (on Ubuntu... my preferred development platform.)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The glade GUI builder can be used with Gtk2Hs on all platforms.</blockquote><div><br>Very cool. I grabbed Glade as well. It's pretty sweet. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Both Gtk2Hs and wxHaskell support Unicode.</blockquote><div><br>Excellent. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> * Is there support for SHA256 (I saw an SSLeay package which had<br>> support for a lot of stuff, but not SHA256)?<br><br>The Crypto package supports SHA1.</blockquote><div><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> * Are there any production Haskell-based desktop apps of note?<br><br>xmonad, an X11 window manager<br>VisualHaskell, a Haskell extension to VisualStudio<br><br>There are a number of programs that use Gtk2Hs or wxHaskell which you
<br>can find linked from their websites including:<br><br>dazzle, <a href="http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/applications.html">http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/applications.html</a><br>pivotal, <a href="http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/pivotal/">
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/pivotal/</a><br>himerge, <a href="http://fmap.us/himerge.html">http://fmap.us/himerge.html</a><br>HRay, <a href="http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste/Haskell/HRay/">http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste/Haskell/HRay/
</a></blockquote><div><br>Thanks!<br><br>David <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Duncan<br><br></blockquote></div>
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