Hi, as some of you may know, I have been using wxHaskell for a project of mine for quite a while - but I'm stuck in the dark ages: ghc 6.10.4, wxMSW 2.8.10 wx 0.11.1.2-0
Being able to run from ghci (even just the once) is essential for me. Occasionally I pop up on the users list and complain about the difficulty in building something new and exciting (like ghc 7.0.3. and wx 0.9) as happened yesterday. Rather than occasionally beating up on you guys, I'd like to help in some way - but I'm not a hardcore software developer - I prefer (as I suspect do we all) to work with Haskell in GHCi developing nice programs that just build and run (the only flags in sight are -fglasgow-exts -package wx ). As a day job I am an academic so don't actually have to write any code that works or can be delivered to anyone. So - I don't have any deep experience in gcc/makefile building, or the complexities of cabal, or multiple architectures. What I do find frustrating is the lack of clear instructions for someone of my lack of such hardcore development experience for the installation of wxHaskell. What I am suggesting is that I help to develop those instructions by (1) cleaning up the dross leftover from previous attempts (2) Following them carefully (keeping a diary) and adding feedback on the instructions to the wiki (using the Discussion facility) (3) Updating the wiki once some consensus on revised instructions have been reached Does this seem reasonable to you guys? I propose starting with the WxHaskell/Windows process first... PS Eric, - I had this email composed and ready to go just before your reply to me on wxhaskell-users ! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Butterfield Tel: +353-1-896-2517 Fax: +353-1-677-2204 Lero@TCD, Head of Foundations & Methods Research Group Director of Teaching and Learning - Undergraduate, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Room G.39, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College, University of Dublin http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ wxhaskell-devel mailing list wxhaskell-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-devel