Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] download page needs updating

[Peter G. <pg...@gm...>]

On 2/18/2009 6:21 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:58 +0100, Axel Simon wrote:
>    
>> On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:40, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On the Gtk2Hs website, only the announcement links to the
>>> downloads. The
>>> download page http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/ still talks about
>>> version gtk2hs 0.9.13 and ghc 6.8.3 etc.
>>>
>>> This has been confusing people and they've been complaining to me
>>> about
>>> it :-).
>>>
>>>        
>> I've updated the page. I'm not so sure though about the details. The
>> previous page didn't include links to the C-libraries zip files. They
>> are not needed for the .exe installer, are they?
>>      
>
> Peter may correct me, but I don't think so. They are available for
> people to build their own standalone Windows installers for programs
> they make that use Gtk2Hs. Such installers have to bundle the Gtk+ .dll
> files (the Haskell exe statically links the Haskell code but not the Gtk
> dlls).
>
>    
Yep, that's right.  I also figured it would make it easy for people to 
build gtk2hs from source if I provided those .zip files with all the 
DLLs, but they're not needed at all if you get the .exe installer.

Pete