Have you tried this?...
darcs get http://patch-tag.com/r/hamish/webkit

On 22 Apr 2013, at 05:12, koral <ko...@mailoo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've started fiddling with webkit's binding, as it seems rather unmaintained 
> and as I need some missing functions for my project (hbro).
> First surprise: as is, darcs version of webkit package doesn't compile, 
> because of missing ObjectClass instances in Type.chs.
> 
> I didn't find any documentation about how the build chain works, so I 
> resorted to a plain reading of Setup*.hs files.
> I first attempted to edit Types.chs directly, until I realized it is 
> generated by gtk2hsTypeGen before each build -- would have appreciated some 
> hint about that not to waste time.
> 
> I had to print some internal states from SetupMain.hs to display the 
> arguments fed to gtk2hsTypeGen -- side suggestion: what about adding some 
> logs in Gtk2Hs module so that newbies can understand what's going on ?
> So it appears hierarchy{,3}.list files are read by gtk2hsTypeGen to generate 
> Type.chs. I noticed that GtkObject was removed from hierarchy3.list, and that 
> putting it back fixes the build as the ObjectClass instances get generated.
> 
> Was that GtkObject removal intended ? If yes, how else could we fix webkit's 
> build ?
> 
> Also, as I'm planning to update the webkit's package a little bit, would you 
> have some documentation/guidelines to recommend ? I've just started learning 
> FFI so I'm not aware of the usual idioms/good practices to apply.
> 
> --
> koral
> 
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