Windows installer 2012.4.0.0 RC1

[Jason Dagit]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:57 AM, George Colpitts
<george.colpitts at gmail.com>wrote:

> inline below
>
> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>
>
You can see the list of packages that should be in the platform here:
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/pre-release/haskell-platform.cabal

Those versions are fairly different from what you have installed. Do you
think you could have 'cabal install'ed something that upgraded them?

By the way, `ghc-pkg list` is probably a faster way to see what you have
installed.

Jason
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