Re: [wxhaskell-users] pinging wxhaskell...

[Neil M. <ndm...@gm...>]

Hi Eric,

> Just forwarding a comment from Neil on Haskell Caf=E9.  He has expressed =
a
> similar sentiment on #haskell a long time ago (which I think I have
> relayed as well).

I just want to make it clear than I appreciate the work that has been
done with wxHaskell, and indeed, it was the first Haskell GUI I
started using. I have no particular desire for wxHaskell to be
extended, but because every successive version of GHC is incompatible
with the binaries, it is essential (in my opinion) that each GHC
release has a corresponding wxHaskell Windows binary.

I'm guessing that the job of producing a Windows installer is fairly
easy, given the right build setup. Is there no Windows wxHaskell
developer who is in a position to do this?

Thanks

Neil

>
> For the record, my participation in this project consists of reviewing
> incoming patches (if nobody else does), and pushing them to darcs.  To
> be honest, I'm stretched too thin for even this meager job.  Luckily,
> there have not been any patches for a while :-/.
>
> That said, I think wxhaskell is really handy.  I like having a native
> GUI on every major platform (may not be perfect, but is a good
> compromise) and I like the relatively high level library.  So it would
> be *really* nice to keep this project alive.  I'll bet other users on
> this list agree with this sentiment.
>
> Jeremy and friends: anybody still have time to be working on this?  And
> wxhaskell-users, are any of you willing to step up and take over the
> patch review job?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Neil Mitchell said:
> > Hi Bulat,
> >
> > > can anyone provide wxHaskell already compiled/compilable with ghc 6.6=
.1 on
> > > Windows?
> >
> > This is precisely the reason I switched to Gtk2Hs - Duncan provides
> > Windows installers as each new GHC release comes out. If wxHaskell
> > wants to stand any chance as an alternative GUI framework there really
> > _must_ be Windows binaries released concurrently with GHC versions...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Neil
>
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