Windows installer 2012.4.0.0 RC1

[George Colpitts]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>

Sorry my fault. I must have, probably gloss (1.7.6.5). Installed without
problems.

George
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