On Wednesday 04 May 2011 22:58:48, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Today I tried to install Gtk2hs. Big mistake! > > Last time I tried it, it was quite easy. Now that it uses Cabal, even on > Windows you can compile this stuff from source fairly easily. It's just > that you have to fiddle with environment variables to make it find > stuff. > > However... > > 1. Since the move of haskell.org, the gtk2hs homepage has vanished off > the face of the Earth. Is there any danger we might get this back some > day? > > 2. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1203 > > (In other words, every time you try to cabal install a GTK-related > package, it fails during the register step, and you need to hand-edit > Gtk2HsSetup.hs to fix the issue.)
Not here. > > 3. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/gtk2hs/ticket/1209 > > (In other words, certain GTK-related packages just plain fail to build > due to undefined names or missing header files or...) Not here. > > In summary, it's just utterly broken. Hmm, not so easy. It seems to work fine on linux (I only installed gtk* stuff for trying out leksah, so things might break with other stuff, but gtk, gio, glib, cairo, pango, gtksourceview2 went through without so much as a hiccough). So, by the looks of it, it seems to "just work " on linux, break on OS X and Windows, which might make it hard to pin down. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe