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diff --git a/x11/wxhaskell/DESCR b/x11/wxhaskell/DESCR index 03dda7059bb..3fbd50b908a 100644 --- a/x11/wxhaskell/DESCR +++ b/x11/wxhaskell/DESCR @@ -3,8 +3,15 @@ The goal of the project is to provide an industrial strength GUI library for Haskell, but without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves. -wxHaskell is therefore built on top of wxWidgets ? a comprehensive C++ +wxHaskell is therefore built on top of wxWidgets - a comprehensive C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library -(in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with -the native look-and-feel, and it has a very active community. +that supports a wide range of widgets with the native look-and-feel, +and it has a very active community. + +Since the core interface is generated automatically from the wxEiffel +binding, about 90% of the wxWidgets functionality is already +supported, excluding more "exotic" widgets like dockable windows. Most +work is currently directed into writing a Haskellized version of the +wxWidgets API. The library currently supports Windows, GTK (Linux) and +MacOS X. |