wavewave / hxournal

hxournal : A pen notetaking program written in haskell
http://ianwookim.org/hxournal
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website doesn't explain what haskell, hackage & cabal are #2

Open gregwebs opened 12 years ago

gregwebs commented 12 years ago

Since hxournal has some features xournal does not have, a non-haskell user may be interested in using it.I thought you also had some kind of networking implemented that was an additional added feature. Also, your pressure sensitivity was supposed to be better.

You should have clear install instructions for a newb. Step 1 of the install instructions should be to install the haskell platform. I still have the issue (not a big deal for me, but should have instructions on the site for the workaround) on Linux that I have to create a symlink in /usr/lib for double-conversion to get linked against libstdc++.so

You probably also want 1 or 2 sentences explaining: Haskell is a much safer and higher-level language than C while still maintaining good performance. We can develop hxournal much more quickly with fewer bugs.

wavewave commented 12 years ago

Hi, Greg,

Thank you very much for your precious suggestions and comments! :D Yes! I am going to write a better description and instruction for this. Your description on haskell is very suggestive to me, so I will put it there. Some day I have to write down and clear things up with significant effort.

As for network support, I made it as a separate package and didn't put the code in the main yet because I need some more clear idea. I am going to write down something on the overall development plan some time.

This is my first project of publishing a software (ah.. I had HROOT before. ) I am inexperienced. I am very welcome to any comment.

best, IW

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Greg Weber reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Since hxournal has some features xournal does not have, a non-haskell user may be interested in using it.I thought you also had some kind of networking implemented that was an additional added feature. Also, your pressure sensitivity was supposed to be better.

You should have clear install instructions for a newb. Step 1 of the install instructions should be to install the haskell platform. I still have the issue (not a big deal for me, but should have instructions on the site for the workaround) on Linux that I have to create a symlink in /usr/lib for double-conversion to get linked against libstdc++.so

You probably also want 1 or 2 sentences explaining: Haskell is a much safer and higher-level language than C while still maintaining good performance. We can develop hxournal much more quickly with fewer bugs.


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wavewave commented 12 years ago

Minimal change in front page has been done. I will spend some time on it later.