Hello, yesterday I read a post informing us about the progress of wxhaskell project preparing itself for upcoming wxWidgets-3.0 release.
One of the interesting thing from the post (http://wewantarock.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/wxhaskell-and-wxwidgets-2-9/) is the following: "The C wrapper for wxWidgets has been moved into a separate project, wxC and built as a shared library" and I believe it could be interesting as the basis to provide future wxD bindings. I have asked about it and here is the reply from one of the main wxhaskell developers: "This is actually the subject of some debate within the wxHaskell community, and I am in the process of writing a separate blog entry covering some of the issues. wxC is certainly a reasonable basis for a wxWidgets wrapper for other languages (it exposes a straightforward C interface and builds as a DLL/.so/.dylib). The build system is presently rather Haskell-centric, which might put off other language communities, but if you did a ‘cabal install wxc’, you would get a DLL you could use with most any other language. Similarly, if you can read plain C header files, you should be able to use the wxC library (I’m no D expert, but everything I have read suggest that D can do this quite easily). If there was enough interest from Non-Haskellers in joint development and maintenance of wxC, then I think we would be comfortable moving to a more, err, inclusive build system, but while the main contribution comes from Haskellers it is harder to justify such a move. Some time back, Eric took control of the moribund wxC project at Sourceforge. We could use this as the basis for such a project." (See comments in the above referenced URL.) What do you think about it? Sincerely, Gour -- Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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