ANNOUNCE: wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of wxHaskell 0.10.3. This is the first update with binary packages available since June 2005, and is the result of a great deal of work by a new team of contributors. We are hoping to make a full release shortly, and issues and bug reports either through the wxHaskell user mailing list (wxhaskell-users@sourceforge.net) or via the Sourceforge bug tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=73133&atid=536845). Highlights of 0.10.3 rc1 include: - Support for Unicode builds of wxWidgets - Support for additional widgets including calendar, toolbar divider, styled text control (wxScintilla), media control - Support for clipboard, drag and drop - Support for 64bit (Linux) targets - Support for wxWidgets 2.6.x (support for wxWidgets 2.4.2 retained if you compile from source) - Support for building with GHC 6.6.x and 6.8.x - Parts of wxHaskell are now built with Cabal - New test cases - Removed support GHC version < 6.4 - Profiling support - Smaller generated binary sizes (using --split-objs) Binary packages are available from the wxHaskell download site at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73133, for the following platforms: - Debian - Windows - OS X (Intel and PPC platforms) - Source code .tar.gz and .zip - Documentation (cross-platform) About wxHaskell wxHaskell is a Haskell binding to the wxWidgets GUI library. It provides a native look and feel on Windows, OS X and Linux, and a medium level programming interface. The main project page for wxHaskell is at http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net. The latest source code for wxHaskell can always be obtained from http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell. There are developer (wxhaskell-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and user (wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net) mailing lists, and a wiki page at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell which can provide more information to those interested. wxHaskell was originally created by Daan Leijen. The contributors to this new release include: - Eric Kow - shelarcy - Arie Middelkoop - Mads Lindstroem - Jeremy O'Donoghue - Lennart Augustson -- Jeremy O'Donoghue jeremy.odonoghue@gmail.com
Congratulations! wxHaskell is v cool but was suffering from lack of loving care. I'm delighted that it not only has a new team, but that you've pushed through to delivering a release. Brilliant. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe- | bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy O'Donoghue | Sent: 12 March 2008 09:50 | To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Cc: wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1 | | We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of wxHaskell | 0.10.3.
I created a summer of code ticket for generic wxHaskell work, http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1550 Perhaps the wxhaskell team would like to fill this out, and perhaps approach the wxWidgets SoC organisation, to see if work on wxHaskell could be funded under their umbrella? simonpj:
Congratulations! wxHaskell is v cool but was suffering from lack of loving care. I'm delighted that it not only has a new team, but that you've pushed through to delivering a release. Brilliant.
Simon
| -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe- | bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy O'Donoghue | Sent: 12 March 2008 09:50 | To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Cc: wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1 | | We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of wxHaskell | 0.10.3. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
On 20/03/2008, Don Stewart
I created a summer of code ticket for generic wxHaskell work,
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1550
Perhaps the wxhaskell team would like to fill this out, and perhaps approach the wxWidgets SoC organisation, to see if work on wxHaskell could be funded under their umbrella?
Thanks, Don! I have updated the ticket with some ideas from the mailing list discussions on the matter. Anybody else from the team have something to add? Users? Potential users? By the way, we do have a potential mentor lined up, this being Kido Takahiro (shelarcy) -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Congratulations! wxHaskell is v cool but was suffering from lack of loving care. I'm delighted that it not only has a new team, but that you've pushed through to delivering a release. Brilliant.
Yeah, I thought wxHaskell was long since dead. Then I come back after a couple of weeks and find there's a new RC. I've never used wx before, but hopefully this might eventually enable me to build Windows apps that have a native look and feel, and don't require the GTK runtime [which is very uncommon on that platform].
Amazing, I downloaded and installed this release for Windows and it works out of the box, just as a lazy Windows user expects! Woohoo! Great work.
-----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe- bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Coppin Sent: donderdag 20 maart 2008 21:18 To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Congratulations! wxHaskell is v cool but was suffering from lack of loving care. I'm delighted that it not only has a new team, but that you've pushed through to delivering a release. Brilliant.
Yeah, I thought wxHaskell was long since dead. Then I come back after a couple of weeks and find there's a new RC. I've never used wx before, but hopefully this might eventually enable me to build Windows apps that have a native look and feel, and don't require the GTK runtime [which is very uncommon on that platform].
_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 08:48:20PM +0100, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Amazing, I downloaded and installed this release for Windows and it works out of the box, just as a lazy Windows user expects! Woohoo! Great work.
I've had this success adding wxhaskell to nixos using the new distribution as well! Thanks Marc Weber
participants (7)
-
Andrew Coppin -
Don Stewart -
Eric Kow -
Jeremy O'Donoghue -
Marc Weber -
Peter Verswyvelen -
Simon Peyton-Jones