On 12.02.2012, at 02:55, wagne...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: > Quoting José Romildo Malaquias <j.romi...@gmail.com>: > >> It would be nice to have a text introducing how gtk2hs is structured. It >> would give newcomers a starting for contributing to the project. > > Hm. Not sure I have the time to outline the whole project -- gtk2hs is > large, and there's plenty of parts I don't even know about -- but if > you have specific questions we can certainly dig a bit together to see > how some particular thing happens. > > Generally, the Haskell bindings are structured quite similarly to the > gtk+ libraries themselves. There is a separate package for each > library (as you'll see by just looking at the directory structure of > the repository). Perhaps the most perplexing packages to me are the > low-level ones, that deal with interfacing Gtk's object system with > GHC's garbage collector and Gtk's type hierarchy with Haskell's > somewhat different typeclass mechanism. A lot of the code to do that > is actually hidden in the "tools" directory in the repository, so if > that's the kind of thing you want to know about, I strongly recommend > starting there, specifically the *gen subdirectories. Other than that, > the only really new thing to learn (once you know Haskell ;-) is about > c2hs. There's some good documentation online for c2hs that outlines > what it does, though there are a few details different from gtk2hs' > fork of the tool. > > Definitely keep us in the loop about what you're hacking on! =)
For end users, there's a tutorial to Gtk2Hs http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/docs/tutorial/Tutorial_Port/ and somebody has started a wiki on haskell.org: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GTK Both are incomplete, could be merged and should be extended. Cheers, Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
