Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-28 Thread Andreas Marth
PROTECTED]) Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:04 PM Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM The biggest Haskell/COM project I know of was Krasimir's implementation of Visual Haskell, which was a plug-in for Visual Studio. The VS interfaces are COM ones, so he had to do lots

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
The biggest Haskell/COM project I know of was Krasimir's implementation of Visual Haskell, which was a plug-in for Visual Studio. The VS interfaces are COM ones, so he had to do lots of COM stuff. He may be able to help you. Sigbjorn Finne knows a lot about HDirect, but he's really busy

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Bayley, Alistair
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton-Jones There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here; the COM tools are not well maintained, so that discourages use, which in turn makes it less rewarding to work on them. What I don't know is the level

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Krasimir Angelov
There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here; the COM tools are not well maintained, so that discourages use, which in turn makes it less rewarding to work on them. What I don't know is the level of suppressed demand: if there were good tools, would lots of people start using them? I think

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Andrew Coppin
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: The biggest Haskell/COM project I know of was Krasimir’s implementation of Visual Haskell, which was a plug-in for Visual Studio. The VS interfaces are COM ones, so he had to do lots of COM stuff. He may be able to help you. Sigbjorn Finne knows a lot about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread J. Garrett Morris
Microsoft's Component Object Model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model /g On 6/27/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: The biggest Haskell/COM project I know of was Krasimir's implementation of Visual Haskell, which was a plug-in for Visual

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Andrew Coppin
J. Garrett Morris wrote: Microsoft's Component Object Model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model ...still left feeling unenlightened. On the other hand, this is the *Haskell* mailing list, so... ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Jon Cast
On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote: J. Garrett Morris wrote: Microsoft's Component Object Model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model ...still left feeling unenlightened. COM documentation does seem to have that effect on people. . . Jonathan Cast

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-27 Thread Tim Docker
Alistair Bayley wrote: I want to interface Takusen with MS Sql Server, but AFAICT the recommended C API is OLE DB, which is a COM API. An alternative would be to write a takusen - freetds binding (http://www.freetds.org/). This would have the potential benefits of being * cross platform

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

2007-06-25 Thread shelarcy
Hello Darrell, On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:08:02 +0900, Lewis-Sandy, Darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any currently maintained tools for interfacing Haskell with COM objects? It appears that both Haskell script and Haskell direct haven't been updated since the turn of the century, and