Heinrich Apfelmus schrieb: > Axel Simon wrote: [...] >> I hope that the Aqua port of Gtk+ will mature eventually and that Gtk+ >> reaches a similar look-and-feel as Qt on the major three platforms. It >> will never be perfect, but if there's some sort of abstraction for the >> menu bar and some good themes, then it might be acceptable to most >> people. > > For me, it's mostly a question of stability and "zippiness". I accept > Gimp but I don't like Inkscape, for example. > >> Having Gtk2Hs in the platform would then be very convenient as it >> would relieve the user from the burden of installing all those >> different binary libraries. I am not willing to invest the time to >> provide a Mac and Windows installer just for Gtk2Hs since then I >> always have to track the ghc and platform releases and opens a lot of >> different platform problems that cabal currently abstracts for me. > > Ah, using cabal for Gtk2Hs is fine, the Haskell side usually works very > well. What I had in mind is that it ships a compiled version of the > corresponding Gtk+ libraries, because the real pain on MacOS is to > install those. There was a precompiled Gtk+ framework if I remember > correctly, but that one seems to be unsupported nowadays; or one can > install from source but that takes hours and then you'll run into at > least one compilation error and throw up your arms in desperation.
We (still) use http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/intel-mac/gtk2-framework.dmg that I originally obtained from http://r.research.att.com/. (They ship http://r.research.att.com/libs/GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg now) Note: gtk2-framework.dmg is non-Aqua and relies on X11. HTH Christian _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
