Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxHaskell in Gentoo Linux

[Mads <mad...@ya...>]

Hi all

Maybe it is time we make a new release?

Not just for the sake of Gentoo, but also as WxHaskell has compiled fine
with GHC 6.8 for some time and as it has Unicode support + a lot of
other changes. And the current Darcs version do not seem any less stable
than 0.9.4-1.


Greetings,

Mads Lindstrøm


Lennart Kolmodin worte:
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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 outdated.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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