Windows installer 2012.4.0.0 RC1

[George Colpitts]

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov <
> the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > If you test this, please let me know what you learn.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>> > It may be possible to backport this. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as
>> it
>> > should be. I believe the version of the OpenGL libraries in the
>> platform are
>> > before the low-level bindings were factored out of the high level
>> packages.
>> > This means that I don't know if the the release that needs the backport
>> is
>> > even in the repository history.
>>
>> Can you point me at the commit you're talking about? Maybe I can
>> backport it myself.
>>
>
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> https://github.com/haskell-opengl/OpenGL/commit/0de14b7378e3c3fde88b472bd21a80d61fd5ef48
> But where will the modified source live? Only on hackage?
>
>
>>
>> > From my point of view, it would be ideal if the HP could use the most
>> recent
>> > versions of the OpenGL packages.
>>
>> I did not follow that discussion. What are the reasons not to ship the
>> most recent versions?
>>
>
> One problem is that when the libraries were refactored they were split
> into different packages. For example, we have OpenGL and OpenGLRaw now,
> with OpenGLRaw containing the lowest level binding to the C api. The *Raw
> packages are not yet in the HP. In addition to the *Raw packages, StateVar,
> Tensor, and ObjectName were also factored out.
>
> Basically, we would have to add the following packages to the platform if
> we want to include the latest OpenGL packages:
>   * OpenGLRaw
>   * GLURaw
>   * StateVar
>   * ObjectName
>   * Tensor
>
>
I'm confused, These packages appear to already have been added to the
platform, at least on the Mac. I assume the Haskell Platform has the same
packages on all the various OSes. On the Mac:

 cabal update
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Note: there is a new version of cabal-install available.
To upgrade, run: cabal install cabal-install
bash-3.2$ cabal install openGL
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
OpenGL-2.5.0.0
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
bash-3.2$ cabal install openGLRaw
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
OpenGLRaw-1.2.0.0
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
bash-3.2$ cabal install GLURaw
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
GLURaw-1.2.0.0
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
bash-3.2$ cabal install StateVar
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
StateVar-1.0.0.0
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
bash-3.2$ cabal install ObjectName
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
ObjectName-1.0.0.0
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
bash-3.2$ cabal install Tensor
Resolving dependencies...
All the requested packages are already installed:
Tensor-1.0.0.1
Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
bash-3.2$




> At least StateVar has been considered controversial in the past as it
> introduces Data.StateVar as a module name, and that was seen as a bad
> introduction to Haskell for beginners. While Data.StateVar could be moved
> under the OpenGL module namespace (Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.*) this would
> do a disservice to all the bindings Sven Panne created (OpenGL, GLUT,
> OpenAL, ALUT, to name a few). StateVar is a useful abstraction over
> readIORef and writeIORef to work with the opaque handle types that
> OpenGL/OpenAL uses. If the platform had some other abstraction for solving
> this problem (maybe one of the lenses implementations would work here?),
> then I could probably be persuaded to switch to it.
>
> I hope that clarifies,
> Jason
>
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