Announcement: new maintainers forr wxHaskell

Hi all, I'd like to announce that we have a new team of maintainers in place for wxHaskell, so we're hoping that this list will see a significant increase in activtiy in the future. We have several near-term objectives, which will likely occur in roughly the order below: * Pull together all of the patches for various wxHaskell functionalities which are 'out there' into the core distribution. * Enhance support for Unicode. * Ensure that we support GHC 6.4.2 and GHC 6.6. * Add support for wxWidgets 2.6.3 and maintain support for wxWidgets 2.4.2. There are very good reasons why many wxHaskell users will want to continue to use 2.4.2. * 'Cabalize' the wxHaskell build system. * Add new examples and increase the coverage of different wxWidgets functionalities. * Create binary releases / installable packages for popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Debian are current favourites) The maintainers will work mainly on a public Darcs repository at http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell, which will always contain the latest patches, but which may not always be stable. I will, from time to time, release reasonably stable updates of files to Sourceforge CVS, and we will aim for binary releases whenever this makes sense. I'd ask the community to send patches via this list. They will get added to the public Darcs repository once at least one of the maintainers has successfully integrated and built them. We will create a separate developers list if the volume of patches ever threatens to overwhelm the wxhaskell-users list :-) To go with the above, I hereby provide first patch to to the archive at http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell as an attachment. This patch brings together patches from a number of sources (mainly Shelarcy and Eric) to provide some support for Unicode variants of wxWidgets, a couple of extra widgets, preliminary support for wxWidgets 2.6.3 and a patch to enable build with GHC 6.6. None of this would have been possible without a great bunch of volunteers who have come forward and shown great patience with the slow pace at which I have pulled this together. Eric Kow, Shelarcy, Mads Lindstrøm, Time Docker and Frank Berthold have all offered their assistance, and should take a virtual bow. Finally, none of this would have been possible without the assistance of Daan Leijen, the original author of most of wxHaskell, who has been gracious enough to offer advice, and to pass on everything we need to move forward.

Hello all,
I suggest gui@haskell.org, the GUI task force mailing list; nothing is
going on there at the moment, but it seems the most appropriate list.
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:52:24 +0100, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Jeremy,
Friday, October 27, 2006, 7:12:44 PM, you wrote:
I'd ask the community to send patches via this list.
i suggest to use libraries@haskell.org for this purpose. at least other libs maintained there
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 23:26:40 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
I suggest gui@haskell.org, the GUI task force mailing list; nothing is going on there at the moment, but it seems the most appropriate list.
Hmm... I guess I'm happy just using the wxhaskell-users list for now, but if we do switch to something, this is a likely candidate. Although in the future, if it does get more active, and more than one project decide to use the list, it might get confusing. Maybe that list would better be for cross toolkit discussions. -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.
participants (4)
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Bulat Ziganshin
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Eric Y. Kow
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Henk-Jan van Tuyl
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Jeremy O'Donoghue