Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?
On 27.10.2010 13:16, Andy Stewart wrote: Christopher Donechrisd...@googlemail.com writes: On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yalakam...@gmail.com wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I wrote my own solution. On Linux it uses xdg-open and on Windows - ShellExecute Api. Does it deserve to be a hackage package? If it's not in an existing small library, yes. If I have to have a dependency on gtk2hs just to do that, I'd rather have a small library. Does it work on OS X? If not, I'm sure someone would submit a patch for that. This can also be used for opening the file browser and such, right? It's APIs in GIO library (a sub-library in gtk2hs), you just need depend on GIO don't need depend any other library. Dmitry, it's unnecessary since GIO can do better with same experience both Windows and Linux, don't need any external program help. Infact, GIO not just call default browser for url, it can call any program to open any format. Ok then. I'll wait for it. I hope binary package for Windows would be provided too. Currently I can't figure out how build gtk2hs there. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?
Dmitry V'yal akam...@gmail.com writes: On 27.10.2010 13:16, Andy Stewart wrote: Christopher Donechrisd...@googlemail.com writes: On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yalakam...@gmail.com wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I wrote my own solution. On Linux it uses xdg-open and on Windows - ShellExecute Api. Does it deserve to be a hackage package? If it's not in an existing small library, yes. If I have to have a dependency on gtk2hs just to do that, I'd rather have a small library. Does it work on OS X? If not, I'm sure someone would submit a patch for that. This can also be used for opening the file browser and such, right? It's APIs in GIO library (a sub-library in gtk2hs), you just need depend on GIO don't need depend any other library. Dmitry, it's unnecessary since GIO can do better with same experience both Windows and Linux, don't need any external program help. Infact, GIO not just call default browser for url, it can call any program to open any format. Ok then. I'll wait for it. I hope binary package for Windows would be provided too. Currently I can't figure out how build gtk2hs there. I guess we won't provide binary package for Windows, but i can tell you how to build gtk2hs on Windows: First: see http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/INSTALL short summary: http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html and download one of the All-in-one bundles. Note that you need to have ~/.cabal/bin on your PATH since otherwise building the libraries will fail, saying that e.g. gtk2hsC2hs cannot be found. Then do cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools gtk will install gtk2hs. I suggest you pull gtk2hs darcs code first to test the GIO code i send you before. When build gtk2hs darcs, you need replace cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools gtk with below commands: darcs get --lazy http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ cd ./gtk2hs sudo chmod +x ./bootstrap.sh ./bootstrap.sh Cheers, -- Andy ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?
On 10/27/10 1:13 AM, Dmitry V'yal wrote: Code I wrote works quite well for my purposes and I copied it into several my programs. In order to make maintenance easier I recently thought about uploading it to hackage. But given a wast amount of half-dead packages with intersecting functionality there I'd like to ask the opinion of community. Does such library look helpful to you? Absolutely! Please do release it in its own package. Gtk2hs is certainly too heavy a dependency for this. I don't think you'll find anything in it, but here's what I've been using: http://joyful.com/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=hledger;a=headblob;f=/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Utils.hs - openBrowserOn ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?
Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com writes: On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yal akam...@gmail.com wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I wrote my own solution. On Linux it uses xdg-open and on Windows - ShellExecute Api. Does it deserve to be a hackage package? If it's not in an existing small library, yes. If I have to have a dependency on gtk2hs just to do that, I'd rather have a small library. Does it work on OS X? If not, I'm sure someone would submit a patch for that. This can also be used for opening the file browser and such, right? It's APIs in GIO library (a sub-library in gtk2hs), you just need depend on GIO don't need depend any other library. Dmitry, it's unnecessary since GIO can do better with same experience both Windows and Linux, don't need any external program help. Infact, GIO not just call default browser for url, it can call any program to open any format. Example, you install many different PDF-Viewer in your system, it will return a Application list for *.pdf format...etc. Good news is, gtk2hs-0.12.0 has ready for release, we will wait one week, if no user report any bug of gtk2hs darcs, we will release. Then you can use it. Cheers, -- Andy ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
