claus.reinke: > FYI: Haskell's OpenGL binding has just been dropped from GHC's > extralibs, which means that it will no longer be kept in sync with GHC > development, at least not by GHC HQ. > > GHC HQ has its hands full and -generally speaking - extralibs are to > be replaced by H(L)P, the Haskell (Library) Platform: > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform > > so this part is understandable. But OpenGL has been dropped before > H(L)P is ready to take over from extralibs, and at the recent GHC Irc > meeting on the topic > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/wiki/IRC_Meetings/ghc-2008-07-16.log > > the mood seemed to favour not including OpenGL&co in the initial > versions of H(L)P. Sven put a lot of good work into these libraries, > but he is often not around for a long time, and it would be a shame > if these gems were orphaned and went out of sync in the meantime. > > While I haven't used OpenGL in a while, I've always hoped to come > back to that, not to mention Sven's spatial audio binding additions. > And if I'm not mistaken, there are other community members who > are using these libs right now for research, possibly even prototyping > in connection with a startup? > > So, if one of you wanted to step forward and offer to keep these > Haskell bindings for OpenGL&co maintained, perhaps steward them > into the H(L)P, now would probably be a good time. > > Just thought I'd forward this, for those not following cvs-ghc, > Claus
Note the OpenGL are still just as maintained as they used to be -- that is, it hasn't had a maintainer for several years. The only change is that the GHC developers don't put them in a tarball on haskell.org/ghc prior to releasing GHC itself. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
