Maciek, Alessandro, and anyone worried about the future.
We will not stop supporting wxWidgets 2.8 until 2.9/3.0 builds are standard
or readily available on all of the supported platforms. The only difference
is that primary development will be on 2.9.x instead of 2.8.x as is the
case right now, so wxHaskell *developers* will need to have wxWidgets 2.9.x
builds (wxWidgets isn't *that* bad to build, although you need to follow
the instructions very carefully)
Basically (using non-DVCS terminology - sorry Eric) the old development
branch will become a maintenance branch and the current feature development
branch becomes the mainline.
What this means is that 2.8.x will see only bugfixes from Jan 2012, and
these will be backported from the 2.9.x branch as needed. This is tedious,
but not hard (we manage more than 30 branches of the same code where I work
in some cases) - and is the only realistic option given the limited
development and test effort available to us.
The bad news is that I volunteer for job of merge monkey(*), which means
that it will get done eventually (sadly for fairly lengthy values of
eventually, unless anyone can invent a 36 hour day :-) That said, if anyone
has a high boredom threshold, they are welcome to take it off of my hands.
(*) actually, we used to have a rubber chicken at work, given to the person
currently merging - had much the same function as a critical section - so
maybe that should be 'merge chicken'.
Best regards
Jeremy
On 28 November 2011 21:41, <maciek.makow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last time I tried I wasn't able to get wx 2.8 to build on Windows.
> After spending a day trying to sort out gcc running out of memory and
> issues with Unicode support I resorted to wxPack. If not for wxPack I
> would have probably given up on using wxHaskell altogether. I'm sure
> it was possible to build it somehow, but I was not prepared to invest
> massive amount of time just to be able to use a GUI library.
>
> Maciek
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Alessandro Vermeulen
> <a.vermeu...@students.uu.nl> wrote:
> >> I fear that the majority of Windows
> >> users will be stuck with wxHaskell versions that work with 2.8.
> > Well, you can always bundle the wx libraries with your application in
> that
> > case and create your own wxPack. :-)
> >
> > - Alessandro
> > On 28 nov. 2011, at 19:09, Maciek Makowski wrote:
> >
> >> I don't have a strong opinion on which version of wx should be
> >> supported by wxHaskell, as long as there is at least one that works on
> >> Windows without the need to compile wxWidgets from source. Until there
> >> is a wxPack available for 2.9 I fear that the majority of Windows
> >> users will be stuck with wxHaskell versions that work with 2.8.
> >>
> >> That aside, focusing on supporting a single version of wxWidgets
> >> sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
> >>
> >> Maciek
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Dave Tapley <duked...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> On 28 November 2011 11:37, Jeremy O'Donoghue <
> jeremy.odonog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 21 November 2011 18:31, Dave Tapley <duked...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Not surprisingly, I am in favour of this :)
> >>>>
> >>>> I have spent a while thinking about this, as it has considerable
> >>>> ramifications.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't think we have ever seen a case of an irresponsible committer
> (could
> >>>> such a thing even exist in the Haskell community?), so I'm in favour.
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Given that there aren't going to be any more 2.8.x releases of
> >>>>> wxWidgets, I'm happy to say:
> >>>>> If you want a stable(ish) wxHaskell, then use the current hackage
> >>>>> release along with the last stable wxWidgets release (2.8.12).
> >>>>> If you want bleeding edge wxHaskell, then pull from code.haskell.org
> >>>>> along with the latest dev wxWidgets release (currently 2.9.2).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I should note one more time that I'm quite happy to stop supporting
> >>>>> pre 2.9.x support now, I don't know if anyone has any objection to
> >>>>> this?
> >>>>
> >>>> The caveat is that I would like to do one more release on Hackage
> >>>> supporting 2.8.x, as we have a number of valuable bugfixes in the
> devel
> >>>> branches which would benefit users of 2.8.x. I will try to do this
> over then
> >>>> next two weeks, so my proposal is...
> >>>>
> >>>> Patches committed until the end of 2011 should be verified on a
> wxWidgets
> >>>> 2.8.x release. From 1st Jan 2012, 2.8.x is dropped, and we'll bump the
> >>>> version number from 0.13.x to 0.14.x.
> >>>>
> >>>> How does this sound?
> >>>
> >>> Well it's the most sensible new year's resolution I've heard thus far
> :)
> >>>
> >>> I shall continue pushing to my >= wx-2.9 repo on darcs den, in to
> >>> which I'm aiming to get all the patches which are sent out on the
> >>> mailing list as well.
> >>>
> >>> Dave,
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeremy
> >>>>
> >>>
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