Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Jul 16, 2010, at 19:10, Felipe Lessa wrote:

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Gregory Collins wrote:

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:40:05 -0300 Felipe Lessa wrote:

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Questions remain about what GUI lib to bring in, to augment the OpenGL suite.

* gtk2hs

+1. gtk2hs also comes with cairo which many diagramming packages use.

I would be happy with just cairo...

Agreed!

Of course I also prefer just cairo over nothing at all. However, if we bundle cairo (and pango, probably) it shouldn't be hard to bundle all of gtk2hs, right? Is there a reason to include just cairo+pango?

As far as I can see, there is a gradual overhead of C libraries involved here. The Platform could ship the following subsets of Gtk2Hs: cairo cairo+glib+pango cairo+glib+pango+gio cairo+glib+pango+gio+gtk It's a question of how big the tar ball is and how much work it is to bundle the C libraries with the Platform. Cheers, Axel