On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Howard B. Golden <howard_b_gol...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Could you explain what you mean by complexity of installation? > >From the same page: *3 Mac* There are one-off experience reports of varying age available at Gtk2Hs/Mac. Please write to the mailing list if you are willing to maintain good instructions (or just start editing this page!). That would be enough to tell me the project isn't ready. But... That text references http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs/Mac - which is no walk in the park, has multiple variants (which do we choose?), and requires MacPorts or HomeBrew - which many (most?) Mac developers don't have. AND, if you want to go upstream to see how to build/package Gtk itself, you arrive at GTK+/OSX/Building - GNOME Live!<https://live.gnome.org/GTK+/OSX/Building> which is itself very complex. All of these instructions have many choices and variants, and many branches depending on the configuration of the user's system. Now imagine somehow building ONE set of binaries, and ONE install script, that manages to work in all those situations.... *This* is what I mean by "complexity of installation". — Mark P.S.: The Windows situation seems to suffer the similar difficulties for getting something that would work on a wide variety of developer systems.
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