On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:57 AM, George Colpitts <george.colpi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> inline below > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < >> the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jason, >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > If you test this, please let me know what you learn. >>> >>> OK. >>> >>> > It may be possible to backport this. Unfortunately, it's not as easy >>> as it >>> > should be. I believe the version of the OpenGL libraries in the >>> platform are >>> > before the low-level bindings were factored out of the high level >>> packages. >>> > This means that I don't know if the the release that needs the >>> backport is >>> > even in the repository history. >>> >>> Can you point me at the commit you're talking about? Maybe I can >>> backport it myself. >>> >> >> >> https://github.com/haskell-opengl/OpenGL/commit/0de14b7378e3c3fde88b472bd21a80d61fd5ef48 >> But where will the modified source live? Only on hackage? >> >> >>> >>> > From my point of view, it would be ideal if the HP could use the most >>> recent >>> > versions of the OpenGL packages. >>> >>> I did not follow that discussion. What are the reasons not to ship the >>> most recent versions? >>> >> >> One problem is that when the libraries were refactored they were split >> into different packages. For example, we have OpenGL and OpenGLRaw now, >> with OpenGLRaw containing the lowest level binding to the C api. The *Raw >> packages are not yet in the HP. In addition to the *Raw packages, StateVar, >> Tensor, and ObjectName were also factored out. >> >> Basically, we would have to add the following packages to the platform if >> we want to include the latest OpenGL packages: >> * OpenGLRaw >> * GLURaw >> * StateVar >> * ObjectName >> * Tensor >> >> > I'm confused, These packages appear to already have been added to the > platform, at least on the Mac. I assume the Haskell Platform has the same > packages on all the various OSes. On the Mac: > > You can see the list of packages that should be in the platform here: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/pre-release/haskell-platform.cabal Those versions are fairly different from what you have installed. Do you think you could have 'cabal install'ed something that upgraded them? By the way, `ghc-pkg list` is probably a faster way to see what you have installed. Jason
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