Re: [wxhaskell-devel] darcs patch: Move wxcore.cabal to wxcore and use Simp... (and 2 more)

[Eric Y. K. <eri...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 14:01:27 +0900, shelarcy wrote:
> >   * Remove targets for building wxcore.
> 
> Why this changes doesn't care about "make bindist"?

It's not deliberate.  It shouldn't be too difficult to revise make
bindist to also include the new purely cabalised wxcore.

> Windows user doesn't have unix shell (e.g. msys or cygwin) in default.
> And current Cabal doesn't care about installing C library binary
> before building Haskell project. So, breaking binary distribution
> causes serious problem.

One thing we could consider doing is shipping a .pc file for wxc
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config

Cabal has support for it, so we could get the wxcore cabal file to
require the wxc with the pkgconfig-depends flag

> >  - install wxWidgets (configure, etc)
> >  - install wxc (configure, etc)
> >  - cabal install wx
> 
> I agree this change is useful. But that is not good for all Windows users.
> I think we must modify your patch to support binary distribution.

Do you have a clear picture what needs to be done?  I don't really.

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