I'm not keen on gtk2hs in general -- it's quite monolithic, which makes it difficult to 1) install (via Cabal) and 2) develop. Ideally, GTK+ bindings would be available on Hackage in separate packages (like "gtk", "gnome-vfs", "gconf", etc), and would be developed in separate repositories to avoid "lockstep".
Luckily, libgnome-keyring doesn't have many glib-isms in its API, so I could treat it as a mostly standalone library. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:12, Alexander Kojevnikov <alexan...@kojevnikov.com> wrote: > > > jmillikin wrote: >> >> The GNOME Keyring is a service for securely storing per-user secret >> information, such as passwords and encryption keys, on the GNOME >> desktop. This library is a binding to the libgnome-keyring C library. >> >> The API is still a bit too slave-ish to the original for my taste, >> some modules will be changing/merging in the next version. The innards >> are an absolute horror -- don't look too close if you're one of those >> people who faint at rampant unsafe casting. >> >> That said, it works surprisingly well for a first-release FFI binding >> -- mostly due to the excellent design of libgnome-keyring and c2hs. >> >> So if any Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris/etc users have needed secure password >> storage in Haskell, please try it out and let me know if you encounter >> any problems. >> Download: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gnome-keyring/ >> API docs (copy of original library docs): >> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1947532/gnome-keyring_0.1/index.html >> > > Thank you so much, John! > > Just yesterday I started learning c2hs and even succeeded in importing > is_available and result_to_message from libgnome-keyring %) I will use your > bindings now, they look much better than what I would come up with! > > I opened a ticket [1] at gtk2hs a month ago, I guess it can be closed now > unless you are interested in integrating with gtk2hs. Despite the name, they > have a bunch of GNOME bindings: gstreamer, gio, vfs, gconf, etc. > > Cheers, > Alex > > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1176 > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE%3A-gnome-keyring-0.1-%28bindings-to-libgnome-keyring%29-tp26383498p26438749.html > Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
