Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:11 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: FYI: Haskell's OpenGL binding has just been dropped from GHC's extralibs, which means that it will no longer be kept in sync with GHC development, at least not by GHC HQ. GHC HQ has its hands full and -generally speaking -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-29 Thread Malcolm Wallace
I don't think that's right. The HP maintainers are not (and cannot be) the maintainers of each individual package. That just does not scale. Oh absolutely, but I was imagining that (at least part of) the purpose of the Platform is to generate automatic notifications to package owners, when a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-29 Thread Isaac Dupree
Malcolm Wallace wrote: As a package author (rather than a user), I would see this as a primary benefit of having my packages added to the Platform. And as a package user (rather than author), there is the corresponding antibenefit of removing a package like HOpenGL from the Platform: a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:34 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: I don't think that's right. The HP maintainers are not (and cannot be) the maintainers of each individual package. That just does not scale. Oh absolutely, but I was imagining that (at least part of) the purpose of the Platform is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-28 Thread Malcolm Wallace
FYI: Haskell's OpenGL binding has just been dropped from GHC's extralibs, which means that it will no longer be kept in sync with GHC development, at least not by GHC HQ. GHC HQ has its hands full and -generally speaking - extralibs are to be replaced by H(L)P, the Haskell (Library)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:47:25PM -0400, Jefferson Heard wrote: Is there a list of outstanding bugs somewhere? A few of these are OpenGL/GLUT/OpenAL/ALUT bugs: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedcomponent=libraries+%28other%29order=priority It

[Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-25 Thread Claus Reinke
FYI: Haskell's OpenGL binding has just been dropped from GHC's extralibs, which means that it will no longer be kept in sync with GHC development, at least not by GHC HQ. GHC HQ has its hands full and -generally speaking - extralibs are to be replaced by H(L)P, the Haskell (Library) Platform:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 17:57 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: So, if one of you wanted to step forward and offer to keep these Haskell bindings for OpenGLco maintained, perhaps steward them into the H(L)P, now would probably be a good time. I fully expect the GL and AL binding libs to join the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-25 Thread Don Stewart
claus.reinke: FYI: Haskell's OpenGL binding has just been dropped from GHC's extralibs, which means that it will no longer be kept in sync with GHC development, at least not by GHC HQ. GHC HQ has its hands full and -generally speaking - extralibs are to be replaced by H(L)P, the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fw: patch applied (ghc): Remove the OpenGL family of libraries fromextralibs

2008-07-25 Thread Jefferson Heard
Well, since HOpenGL seems to support practically all of OpenGL 2.1, I don't see that there's much to maintain, except compatibility with upcoming releases of GHC and possibly some optimization. Maybe I'm missing something, though. Is there a list of outstanding bugs somewhere? I personally know