Hi everybody, Nice to see wxhaskell making progress!
I was hoping I could jot down some wishlist items for building wxhaskell... The big thing on my list is for "cabal install wx" to "just work". Right now, you have to sudo cabal install wxcore --global cabal install wx which is really quite clunky, especially if you want people to be able to cabal install stuff which depends on wx As you know (and the franchise folks may not be aware), our current cabalisation is a bit of a sham; it just adds some packaging around our configure script (which is handwritten and not even autoconf-generated!) and our Makefile. Would anybody have the time to look into makefile.lib and see if we can do anything about it? The ideal, I guess would be to get rid of our homegrown configure script + makefile combination altogether. One thing we could start with is by cabalising wxdirect and just making wxcore for that. It seems a little silly having this tool on hackage that /only/ serves for building wxhaskell (but then maybe one day it will be useful for working on contribs?) Another idea to play with is converting our homegrown build system to use franchise, which may be a better fit for wxhaskell because of the fanciness of our setup - franchise: http://groups.google.com/group/franchise-haskell/web/home-page - wxhaskell components: http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2008/02/wxhaskell-components-and-news.html I'm CC'ing the franchise list in case they were interested :-) Thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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