Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxHaskell modularity

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

Hi Eric,

On 21/08/07, Eric Kow <eri...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> > (*) There's a secondary reason for factoring out the wxc build from
> > the wxHaskell build: a number of other languages (most of them in the
> > FP church, if you define it reasonably broadly) use wxC as the basis
> > for their wxWidgets bindings.
>
> Are you aware of the wxc project by any chance?
>
> http://wxc.sourceforge.net/

I'm aware of it, and at least the following others: wxCL (Common
Lisp), wxCaml (Ocaml)

> We had discussed pooling our resources at some point, but decided the
> best thing was to prioritise a wxhaskell release and then talk about
> working together.

I looked at what has been done on wxC. The main thing they seem to
have done is to replace the build system with Ant, which seems like a
retrograde step to me (Ant is great in the Java world, but it's just
another dependency to everyone else).

I understand the build system frustration for them, but wanted to
stick with GNU make as it's present (or trivial to install) on pretty
much any Free Software development system.

... and yes, we need to prioritize a release.

Regards
Jeremy