Re: [wxhaskell-users] Is with-* reasonable for supporting wxWidgets contrib libraries? (Was: pinging wxhaskell...

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

Hi Shelarcy,

On 20/08/07, shelarcy <she...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:42:26 +0900, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > This really only works as an option if we decide that users must build
> > wxWidgets from source *before* they can build wxHaskell.
>
> Really?
> I think that nowadays wxWidgets packager worried about wxPython.
> And wxPython depends on contribs.
>
> http://www.wxpython.org/builddoc.php
[snip other examples of bindings depending on contrib]

> So I want to know about wxWidgets package's condition.
>
> > It's likely to be irritating to Linux users who are used to "apt-get
> > install wxWidgets" as their usual approach to installing libraries.
>
> Is this right?
> Any packages system's wxWidgets doesn't have contrib? Or any package
> system doesn't choose version that supports contrib?

So far as I can tell, Debian supports contrib on wxWidgets 2.4 but not
2.6 (and doesn't yet have a wxWidgets 2.8 package), so I do think this
is an issue, e.g.:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libwxgtk2.4-contrib-dev
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libwxgtk2.6-dev

However, I'm convinced by your argument that the contrib components
are useful, and that we should depend on them - I think that all it
means is that we need to provide binaries for wxWidgets for those who
have neither the time nor inclination to build themselves.

Therefore, I'll complete the updates to the build system on the basis
that contrib components (and OpenGL support) have been compiled into
wxWidgets.

Regards
Jeremy