Proposal: Add-on packs

[harry]

Howard B. Golden <howard_b_golden at ...> writes:

> OK. I'm convinced about the Mac installation situation. Unfortunately, I
can't help with that because I
> have no software experience with the Mac. Windows looks more tractable. I
will try to use Gtk2hs and
> (hopefully) wxhaskell on Windows and report my experiences. If I'm
successful I will see what I can do to
> contribute to an add-on for Windows.
> 
> While I suspect that Macs are used more for Haskell than Windows, it would
still be worthwhile to package up
> an add-on for Linux and Windows than to have nothing IMO. The availability
of an add-on for other systems
> might encourage Mac developers to devote the effort to getting out all the
kinks.

I've recently attempted several Gtk2hs and WxHaskell installations on
Windows. Gtk2Hs is pretty straightforward and reliable these days, but the
latest released version of WxHaskell won't even build with GHC 7.6. It will
also fail if installed into a path containing spaces, and I'm still trying
to work out how to get it to work with cabal-dev.