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