On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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 > Sorry my fault. I must have, probably gloss (1.7.6.5). Installed without problems. George
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