Well, since HOpenGL seems to support practically all of OpenGL 2.1, I don't see that there's much to maintain, except compatibility with upcoming releases of GHC and possibly some optimization. Maybe I'm missing something, though. Is there a list of outstanding bugs somewhere? I personally know of one bug that I found some time ago, which I simply worked around, but a comprehensive list, I'm not aware of.
-- Jeff On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- I try to take things like a crow; war and chaos don't always ruin a picnic, they just mean you have to be careful what you swallow. -- Jessica Edwards _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
