Dear wxHaskell users,
First of all, I apologize for not being responsive on the
wxHaskell users mailing list. I recently changed jobs and countries and didn’t
properly take care of older email aliases.
Anyway, even though I am motivated to support wxHaskell,
practice proves that the project is too large for me to do alone. It would be
great if someone or a group of people feel motivated enough to take over the
project and release new versions that are compatible with the latest Ghc
versions. One potential challenge is to find a group of testers that are
willing to help compiling wxHaskell on different target systems: Windows, MacOS
X, and Unix/GTK variations.
I am happy to give volunteers administrator privileges on the
sourceforge site and help out with the initial transition and building the
initial new release (which is generally a lot of careful work in compiling and packaging
correctly).
All the best,
-- Daan Leijen.
Ps. Include me on the reply list as I am not subscribed properly
to either mailing list at the moment.
From: Simon Peyton-Jones
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:46 AM
To: Daan Leijen
Subject: FW: Reviving wxHaskell (was: Re: [wxhaskell-users]
[Haskell-cafe] Troublecompiling wxhaskell)
Daan
Have you seen this thread? Would you care to respond to it?
Simon
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jeremy O'Donoghue
Sent: 01 August 2006 09:37
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reviving wxHaskell (was: Re: [wxhaskell-users] [Haskell-cafe]
Troublecompiling wxhaskell)
Hi list,
Apologies for continuing with the cross-posting, but wxhaskell-users is not
exactly active.
It seems like there may be enough interest in wxHaskell to justify trying to
revive the project.
At present, from what I can tell, Daan Leijen, the principal developer of
wxHaskell, no longer has much interest in the project - the CVS log shows
little activity for about 15 months now - and using wxHaskell with newer
wxWidgets versions or on Unicode systems requires the application of various
patches (for which the interested potential user must search diligently).
Ideally, it would be best Daan for to enable new CVS committers to the project
(or even to hand over project administration), but if this is not an option, is
there a possibility of hosting a fork on hackage.haskell.org
(I think there's a benefit in hosting Haskell-specific projects in a
Haskell-friendly location).
I don't have the time to nurture huge ambitions for wxHaskell, but I think it
is realistic to aim for the following in the short term:
* Patches to ensure that wxHaskell compiles against latest wxWidgets versions
on Mac, Linux and Windows (exists today)
* Add Eric Kow's Unicode patches (exist today)
* Produce suitable binary packages for whatever targets we can get maintainers
for, compatible with up-to-date versions of both GHC and wxWidgets.
* Improve samples and documentation.
In the longer term, we could look at:
* Fixing operation with sash windows (a personal gripe ;-) - easy
* Wrapping some of the more complex widgets - easy.
* Subclassing of widgets in Haskell ( i.e. allow C++ virtual methods to be
redefined in Haskell) - moderately hard
* Move from the Eiffel wxc bindings to wxC project to give better maintained interface to wxWidgets - time consuming, but easy
* Porting to other Haskell implementations (Hugs, YHC etc)
Taking on a project like this is a very significant commitment, and only makes
sense if there are a number of willing contributors. I'm happy to kick this off
and try to cover some of the boring 'administrative' bits, as well as
contributing on documentation and smaller bug fixes, but I don't have time to
save wxHaskell from permanent bit-rot. If there's enough interest, I'll push
ahead with trying to organize this.
Regards
Jeremy
On 01/08/06, shelarcy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On
7/31/06, David F. Place <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm having trouble compiling wxhaskell 0.9.4 under both ghc 6.4.2 and
>> ghc 6.5. Does anyone know where I should direct my
queries?
If you use ghc 6,4,2 under Windows platform, you
can use my patched version of wxHaskell.
And you can get my patch from Kamiariduki's source.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2006-June/018043.html
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=168626
I also know Eric Y. Kow's unicode patch doesn't
include db problems fix. These problems has not
only wxWidgets 2.6.x change, but also unicode
change.
I try to fix latter case, use attached after unicode
patch, this fixes compile problem ... but it has
another problem that can't use non-ascii characters
correctly. So, if want to accesss DB by wxHaskell's
ODBC, data is garbled and cause problems.
I don't know how to fix that.
Attached is already sent wxhaskell-user's list, but
you can't get this file. So I send again.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=16222530
My patch where I put Kamiariduki's project page doesn't
include unicode support that I noticed above Mailng-List's
log.
Don't worry about this. You can use both my patch and
unicode patch, if you want. These cause conflict message
but this is not problem.
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:18:27 +0900, Jason Dagit
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've done this recently. I put my notes on the wiki:
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Install#Windows
I don't know this problem when I made patch.
So, my patch doesn't fix this problem.
--
shelarcy <shelarcy capella.freemail.ne.jp>
http://page.freett.com/shelarcy/
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