Heinrich Apfelmus schrieb:
Axel Simon wrote: [...]
I hope that the Aqua port of Gtk+ will mature eventually and that Gtk+ reaches a similar look-and-feel as Qt on the major three platforms. It will never be perfect, but if there's some sort of abstraction for the menu bar and some good themes, then it might be acceptable to most people.
For me, it's mostly a question of stability and "zippiness". I accept Gimp but I don't like Inkscape, for example.
Having Gtk2Hs in the platform would then be very convenient as it would relieve the user from the burden of installing all those different binary libraries. I am not willing to invest the time to provide a Mac and Windows installer just for Gtk2Hs since then I always have to track the ghc and platform releases and opens a lot of different platform problems that cabal currently abstracts for me.
Ah, using cabal for Gtk2Hs is fine, the Haskell side usually works very well. What I had in mind is that it ships a compiled version of the corresponding Gtk+ libraries, because the real pain on MacOS is to install those. There was a precompiled Gtk+ framework if I remember correctly, but that one seems to be unsupported nowadays; or one can install from source but that takes hours and then you'll run into at least one compilation error and throw up your arms in desperation.
We (still) use http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets... that I originally obtained from http://r.research.att.com/. (They ship http://r.research.att.com/libs/GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg now) Note: gtk2-framework.dmg is non-Aqua and relies on X11. HTH Christian