Re: [wxhaskell-users] Wxhaskell Revival?

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

Hi Wouter,

On 18/10/06, Wouter Swierstra <ws...@cs...> wrote:
>
> There's been some talk recently about reviving wxHaskell. I'd be very
> interested in such a project. I have to design a Haskell GUI soon. My
> first choice would be wxHaskell, provided it is up to date and still
> being maintained. The recent release of GHC 6.6 would be the perfect
> opportunity to release new binaries -- so what is the current state
> of affairs?

The 'talk' is correct, and some effort has been ongoing. I have
incorporated most of the existing wxaskell patches that I know about
into engineering builds (broadly, these provide support for linking
with Unicode versions of the wx libraries and support for wxWidgets
2.6.2 as well as 2.4.2).

Shelarcy has a patch to enable build under GHC 6.6, but it is only a
partial solution, and I have not yet tested it. I am looking at using
Cabal to build some/all of wxHaskell, which seems like a better
solution (although you would still need to build wxWidgets for your
platform).

Finally, there is a brave team of volunteers for different aspects of
the things which need to be done (who are probably fed up with the
snail's pace of progress themselves).

All of this is "good stuff", but doesn't help the users of wxHaskell
very much. A blocking issue (apart from my day job...) has been
hosting as none of us have CVS commit rights to Sourceforge (and we
need Daan to grant them).

If this is not resolved very quickly (we've been waiting for a couple
of months now), I will fork the codebase of wxHaskell elsewhere, and
development will continue at a new location. Of course, information on
where to look will be announced here.

Regards
Jeremy