Functional Metapost maintained?

[Olof Oberg]

Ferenc Wagner wrote: 
>              Hi,
>
> I got to know Haskell through Functional Metapost.  Those
> who use LaTeX and feel like programming some graphics in
> Haskell, might have a look at this:
> 
> http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/functional-metapost-latex.pdf
> 
> Trying to use the package I had some problems with the
> current Hugs and GHC, too.  It seems like the version I have
> is quite dated: it uses fromDouble, fromInt, fromRealFrac
> etc. which GHC barks at.
> 
> I made some modifications to have it compile, so that I can
> use it know, but I still have a couple of problems that
> should be washed out.  But before I go for it, I'd like to
> know if somebody have got a newer version, or somebody else
> maintains it, or have some relevant information about that
> package, or anything...  On the Web I found nothing, really.
I am interested in using FuncMP, so if you get it to 
work with a current GHC or Hugs..

Plain metapost is just too awkward to use when one 
wants to make more complex graphics, like 3D. I think 
Haskell might help there.

 /mill

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