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! =) ~d ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
