[wxhaskell-devel] Status/development of wxHaskell?

[Atze D. <atz...@gm...>]

L.S.,

I am trying to understand/fix problems with treeCtrl, which is crashing (see related bug report). I got sources from github, but after some time I saw that the cabal version nr of wxdirect from the git archive (https://github.com/jodonoghue/wxHaskell/blob/master/wxdirect/wxdirect.cabal) is lower than the cabal version nr from the darcs archive (http://code.haskell.org/wxhaskell/wxdirect/wxdirect.cabal), and similarly for the wx package, but just the other way around. Hence the question 'which repo is the one actually in use?' and against which repo patches can be committed? Related to this, both archives are inactive anyway since summer 2012, both are also still mentioned on the wxHaskell wiki, activity on this mailinglist is low, so is any development/maintenance done at all?

I am asking these questions as I am fixing a legacy wxHaskell app (7 years old), and also trying to figure out whether wxHaskell is still a good way to go for future GUI development. For the record, I like wxHaskell, but I need to know (probably like others using wxHaskell) whether wxHaskell (or for that matter, any GUI programming in Haskell/GHC) is going to be used/maintained in the long run, and for that some basics (like which repo is used) need to be clear.

regards,



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