On 15/07/2010 21:01, Don Stewart wrote:
Questions remain about what GUI lib to bring in, to augment the OpenGL suite.
* gtk2hs * wxHaskell
Both cabalized, but will hamper the ease of building from source (since they bring in big C lib deps).
I like gtk2hs a lot, and I've argued for its inclusion in the platform before, but I'm now of the opinion that it's not a good enough all-round solution to go in the platform. The Mac folks hate it, and while it works on Windows it's not ideal there either. I don't have much experience with wxHaskell, but I imagine the situation with that is quite similar. So I suggest we leave the GUI library as an add-on, but explain clearly how people can get up and running with *some* GUI library quickly, with pointers to instructions for their platform. Cheers, Simon