Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] Patch for 0.9.7 with GHC 6.4 and other updates

[Duncan C. <dun...@wo...>]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:22 +0100, Axel Simon wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:48 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So, I've backported GHC 6.4 support for Gtk2Hs 0.9.7  (attached).
> 
> Wow. I wouldn't have considered that necessary.

I've noticed quite a few people asking for it.

> > Daan
> > just made a release of wxHaskell specifically for 6.4 compatability so I
> > had to jump! :-)
> 
> Ok. Well, competitors are good, I guess.

:-)

> > If we can fix the above problem we can announce it on gtk2hs-users and
> > add a FAQ entry. I don't think we need to do an intrim release, but feel
> > free to disagree on that point.
> 
> I think a real release is due. It's my table stuff that is holding it
> up, I feel. I'll see if I can do something about it.

Perhaps. In any case I think we should make a clear TODO list of stuff
that needs to be finnished for a 0.9.8 release and what can be punted
for later.

> > In other news, I've got the properties stuff working for most everything
> > (including String properties which were the harder case due to the
> > NULLs). So I'll commit that in the next few days (it touches more or
> > less every file).
> 
> Ok. Tell me when you're done.

Will do. You'll notice once the flood of commits to cvs tails off. :-)

> > I've got a binding to VTE compiling, which we can add if we like.
> > http://haskell.org/hircules/ uses it's own partial binding.
> 
> VTE? I know hircules but VTE?

I only did it because it was easy :-). It's just one binding file and
the code generator did almost all of it. There's no need to include it.

> > I got hscairo to build. I don't think there should be too many problems.
> > One thing though; hscairo uses an attributes API, we use an attributes
> > API, they're not the same. I think that we can make them compatible, so
> > long as Abraham is ok with it. See http://ofb.net/~abe/darcs/attribute
> 
> When I looked at the cairo stuff there wasn't any documentation
> included. I assume that hasn't changed, right?

True.

>  Am I right that you can't
> use genAPI for cairo since mono doesn't support it?

Indeed, we can't use the code generator because Cairo is not a
GObject-based API.

Duncan