Hi all Maybe it is time we make a new release?
Not just for the sake of Gentoo, but also as WxHaskell has compiled fine with GHC 6.8 for some time and as it has Unicode support + a lot of other changes. And the current Darcs version do not seem any less stable than 0.9.4-1. Greetings, Mads Lindstrøm Lennart Kolmodin worte: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > Gentoo Linux has provided wxHaskell since version 0.6, it went into > portage during March 2004. > > We've tried to keep it up to date since then, but unfortunately we're > now having a few issues with the latest version as it has gone a bit > outdated. As a Linux distribution we don't release darcs snapshots into > the public, we only distribute released versions. To continue to > distribute wxHaskell we need a new release that addresses some trouble > we have. > > Our version of wxHaskell 0.9.4 has become heavily patched since we added > it in May 2005, yet it has severe drawbacks: > * It only compiles with ghc 6.4.2 and earlier. > We need support for ghc 6.6 and ghc 6.8 > > * It requires that wxWidgets is built with support for X, > and without support for odbc and unicode. We had to find out > ourselves last time by bug reports of our users. > Looks like you're working on unicode support, how about odbc? > > * It only builds against the older wxWidgets 2.6, not the most > recent 2.8. Will this change? > > * Because it's released as a .zip file, our build has to depend on > unzip. We'd much prefer a .tar.gz file as usual. > > For Gentoo to keep wxHaskell publicly available, we need a release that > at least has to build with ghc 6.6 and 6.8, and preferably support later > wxWidgets versions. > > We'd love to see wxHaskell make a comeback! If you think it will take a > while to correct the above, we might have to drop wxHaskell and add it > back later when it's more up to date. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, > Lennart Kolmodin -- Gentoo dev > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHXcJ64txYG4KUCuERAis4AJ9Q1CtMCNAG8mshMOgpvqSRnaC/HwCfTokZ > qFdyYvkhttdALDsJcJ1fOto= > =CoWw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > wxhaskell-users mailing list > wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ wxhaskell-users mailing list wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users
