Hi Jürgen, Am Freitag, den 02.04.2010, 14:31 +0200 schrieb Jürgen Nicklisch-Franken:
I cite from a mail from a potential user/contributor for my GUI app. What shall I say, how should he install gtk2hs? Is their a way to get a stable version from a changing darcs repo?
Is he trying to use or to develop leksah? If it is just using, the correct answer should be, eventually, use the package provided by your distribution. For this case, I guess I should put the leksah Debian packages that I already have somewhere (maybe on leksah.org) until they can be included in Debian proper. Do you use a Debian-based system yourself? In that case, I can tell you how to build these yourself so you will always have up-to-date packages to give to interested users.
... Each gtk2hs package (like glib-0.10.1) installed in that non-standard location by Ubuntu apt-get does at least have a package.conf file, like glib.package.conf. However, on inspection, the "id" fields are missing, and the "depends" fields look more like .cabal file "depends" fields (no ABI ID).
This is maybe not an issue with gtk2hs, but with the Debian packaging of it. It would be best in these cases if the user would report the problem to the maintainer of the package (e.g. using the reportbug tool on Debian). Version numbers would also be helpful. On my machine, I had no troubles building leksah with the gtk2hs library provided by Debian. Note that the trouble of building those with ghc-6.12 is already taken care of by the Debian maintainers. Greetings, Joachim (with his Debian Haskell Team member hat on) -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata