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:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform
so this part is understandable. But OpenGL has been dropped before H(L)P is ready to take over from extralibs, and at the recent GHC Irc meeting on the topic
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/wiki/IRC_Meetings/ghc-2008-07...
the mood seemed to favour not including OpenGL&co in the initial versions of H(L)P. Sven put a lot of good work into these libraries, but he is often not around for a long time, and it would be a shame if these gems were orphaned and went out of sync in the meantime.
While I haven't used OpenGL in a while, I've always hoped to come back to that, not to mention Sven's spatial audio binding additions. And if I'm not mistaken, there are other community members who are using these libs right now for research, possibly even prototyping in connection with a startup?
So, if one of you wanted to step forward and offer to keep these Haskell bindings for OpenGL&co maintained, perhaps steward them into the H(L)P, now would probably be a good time.
Just thought I'd forward this, for those not following cvs-ghc, Claus
Note the OpenGL are still just as maintained as they used to be -- that is, it hasn't had a maintainer for several years. The only change is that the GHC developers don't put them in a tarball on haskell.org/ghc prior to releasing GHC itself. -- Don