Web - HTML 2009/6/17 Patai Gergely <patai_gerg...@fastmail.fm>
> Hi all, > > I intend to start coding the UI of the heap profiling toolkit I'm > working on [1] soon. I'd be happy to get some advice on choosing the > right windowing toolkit for this task. The main requirements are: > > - portability and native look & feel if possible > - easy to distribute executables under Windows > - relatively slow code rot > - sane interface that doesn't need wild workarounds even if what I'm > doing is not trivial or elementary > - trouble-free source installation in case someone wants to contribute > > As I see, at the moment there's no serious alternative besides GTK and > wx, so my question is which do you think is better suited to this task? > I have absolutely no development experience with GTK, and while I used a > bit of wx in the past (in C++), I'm not really familiar with it either, > especially not the Haskell bindings. I noticed that installing the wx > binding with user rights doesn't seem to work directly from hackage > (doesn't pass --user to ghc-pkg?), but it looks like a problem that can > be solved with some hand editing. I'm a bit more afraid of setting up a > development environment under Windows; is there any major pain involved > with either of these libraries if I use MinGW? > > And how about their interface? Is there any significant difference? I'd > especially like to hear the opinion of someone who's reasonably familiar > with both. > > Thanks, > > Gergely > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/hp2any/ > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and > love email again > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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