Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2009 17:58:23 schrieb Claus Reinke:
[...] so it might be a good idea to check that it works on your platforms.
Exactly. Of course reports about problems and suggestions for improvements are always welcome, but I wouldn't mind reports about working platforms, too. Currently I don't have a clear picture which package works where...
- initial release appears imminent, so it is too late to get bug fixes in now, but you could test the installer release candidates. [...]
Regarding the OpenGL/GLUT packages I would consider the upcoming HP release alpha quality only, because all the recent bug fixes will *not* be included. Nevertheless, give it a try to see if the installer/RPM/whatever works and for serious work, wait for the next minor release of the HP. This raises a point which is a bit unclear, at least for me: Where do users of the HP report a bug? It can be a bit tricky to decide if it's only a packaging bug, which I can't fix, or a real bug in the OpenGL/GLUT binding. Has this been discussed in the "HP inner circle"?
- I'm not sure whether the HP policy arguments would affect Sven's recent feature additions - they won't be in the initial HP release, but the question is whether they'll be in the planned bug-fix release, soon, or in the next major HP release, which is nowhere near. [...]
I really, really hope that the minor HP release will allow feature additions where the major version number of the package stays the same. Everything else would bring down distribution of much-wanted features to a crawl and force people to install the packages by hand once again. But again, I don't have a clue what the HP people decided about this...
Windows installer RC (does *not* include glut32.dll): http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2009-May/000147.html
Personally I hope this will get fixed for the initial release, otherwise the HP will be only semi-functional out-of-the-box. Cheers, S.