[Haskell-cafe] Hackage and GUI (was Hackage status with GHC 6.10 release candidate)

2008-10-13 Thread Hans van Thiel 

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 14:46 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: 
 Hey all.
 
 The GHC 6.10 RCs are out, and we're preparing the release. To help manage the 
 transistion to GHC 6.10 it is now possible to actually build all the 3rd party
 Haskell packages, and publish their results wrt. the release candidate.
 
 For the first time ever, we're able to have all the 3rd party code
 tested and ready to go *prior* to the release of the new compiler and
 base libraries.
 
 Using GHC 6.10 RC, Cabal 1.6 and cabal-install 1.16, of 682 libraries and apps
 tried in total,
 
   1 UnpackFailed
   2 DownloadFailed
   2 InstallFailed
  16 ConfigureFailed
  73 DependencyFailed
 132 BuildFailed
 456 InstallOk
 
 Note that these builds are with soft deps, provided on hackage,
 
 base  4
 parsec  3
 HaXml == 1.13.*
 QuickCheck  2
 
 which train cabal-install to build a larger set of packages.
What's the status of Gtk2Hs with regard to Cabal? Is it correct that not
one of the applications on Hackage, and there are some, uses or can use
a GUI at this point in time? 
Secondly, has Gtk2Hs compatibility been tested with GHC 6.10? In the
past there have sometimes been problems with new GHC releases and
Gtk2Hs. These have always been addressed, but it usually took a few
months..

Cheers,

Hans van Thiel

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage and GUI (was Hackage status with GHC 6.10 release candidate)

2008-10-13 Thread Duncan Coutts 
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 16:15 +0200, Hans van Thiel wrote:

 What's the status of Gtk2Hs with regard to Cabal? Is it correct that not
 one of the applications on Hackage, and there are some, uses or can use
 a GUI at this point in time?

Gtk2Hs still does not use Cabal as its build system. With the recent
summer of code project on a dependency framework for Cabal we're now
much closer to being able to convert Gtk2Hs to use Cabal.

There are several packages on hackage that depend on gtk2hs or
wxhaskell.

 Secondly, has Gtk2Hs compatibility been tested with GHC 6.10? In the
 past there have sometimes been problems with new GHC releases and
 Gtk2Hs. These have always been addressed, but it usually took a few
 months..

I think I've seen some patches going past on the gtk2hs-devel list for
ghc-6.10 compatibility.

Duncan

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