[wxhaskell-users] wxHaskell in Gentoo Linux

[Lennart K. <kol...@dt...>]

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Hi!

Gentoo Linux has provided wxHaskell since version 0.6, it went into
portage during March 2004.

We've tried to keep it up to date since then, but unfortunately we're
now having a few issues with the latest version as it has gone a bit
outdated. As a Linux distribution we don't release darcs snapshots into
the public, we only distribute released versions. To continue to
distribute wxHaskell we need a new release that addresses some trouble
we have.

Our version of wxHaskell 0.9.4 has become heavily patched since we added
it in May 2005, yet it has severe drawbacks:
 * It only compiles with ghc 6.4.2 and earlier.
     We need support for ghc 6.6 and ghc 6.8

 * It requires that wxWidgets is built with support for X,
     and without support for odbc and unicode. We had to find out
     ourselves last time by bug reports of our users.
     Looks like you're working on unicode support, how about odbc?

 * It only builds against the older wxWidgets 2.6, not the most
     recent 2.8. Will this change?

 * Because it's released as a .zip file, our build has to depend on
     unzip. We'd much prefer a .tar.gz file as usual.

For Gentoo to keep wxHaskell publicly available, we need a release that
at least has to build with ghc 6.6 and 6.8, and preferably support later
wxWidgets versions.

We'd love to see wxHaskell make a comeback! If you think it will take a
while to correct the above, we might have to drop wxHaskell and add it
back later when it's more up to date.

Thanks.

Cheers,
  Lennart Kolmodin -- Gentoo dev
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