[wxhaskell-users] ANN: wxHaskell 0.13.2

[Jeremy O'D. <jer...@gm...>]

Hi Lists,

I am please to announce that wxHaskell 0.13.2 has just been uploaded to
Hackage.

This is mainly a bugfix release, although it brings a few useful changes:

   - Changes to support build under Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0
   - OpenGL support if your wxWidgets build is configured with it
   (reinstated functionality)
   - StyledTextControl support if your wxWidgets build is configured with
   it (reinstated functionality)

This is intended to be the final wxHaskell release supporting wxWidgets
2.8.x.

Provided that you have a suitable Unicode wxWidgets 2.8 install configured
on your machine, you should be able to install with. cabal install wx

In the near future, we will be committing an updated wxHaskell release
supporting wxWidgets 2.9, but this implies a number of breaking API
changes, and the size of team supporting wxHaskell is not large enough to
cover both. As such, this release is recommended to those who will not be
able to move to wxWidgets 2.9 and later.

The next release has more significant improvements planned, including
wrapping several additional wxWIdgets libraries and restoring correct
operation in GHCi. We do not have a formal timeline as yet, but the code is
working in test repositories, and mainly needs work to make it
cross-platform clean.

This release has been tested on the following platforms:

   - Windows 7 / Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 / wxPack 2.8.12 (Unicode,
   Release)
      - OpenGL is not enabled on the test platform, so OpenGL samples do
      not work.
      - StyledTextControl is not enabled on the test platform, so STC
      samples do not work.
      - All other sample code compiles, links and runs, but has only been
      tested for Unicode wxWidgets builds.
   - Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS (32 bit) / GHC 6.12 / wxWidgets 2.8.10
      - Repo packages: wx2.8-headers, libwxgtk2.8-0, libwxgtk2.8-dev,
      libglitz1, libglitz-gl1, libgl1-mesa-dri, libglu1-mesa, libglu1-mesa-dev,
      mesa-common-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-glx, ghc6
      - Cabal packages: strict, stm, OpenGL, cabal-install
      - OpenGL is enabled on the test platform, and the samples compile and
      run.
      - StyledTextControl is not enabled on the test platform, so STC
      samples do not work.
      - All other sample code compiles, links and runs, but has only been
      tested for Unicode wxWidgets.

I do not have access to an OS X platform for test, so would appreciate
feedback on any issues found by OS X users. There are known to be issues on
64 bit OS X builds, which will be addressed in the next release.

The source repository at code.haskell.org has not yet been updated with the
patches. This will happen in the next day or so.

Best regards
Jeremy