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*3 Mac*
There are one-off experience reports of varying age available at
Gtk2Hs/Mac. Please write to the mailing list if you are willing to maintain
good instructions (or just start editing this page!).


That would be enough to tell me the project isn't ready. But...

That text references http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs/Mac - which
is no walk in the park, has multiple variants (which do we choose?), and
requires MacPorts or HomeBrew - which many (most?) Mac developers don't
have.

AND, if you want to go upstream to see how to build/package Gtk itself, you
arrive at GTK+/OSX/Building - GNOME
Live!<https://live.gnome.org/GTK+/OSX/Building> which
is itself very complex.

All of these instructions have many choices and variants, and many branches
depending on the configuration of the user's system. Now imagine somehow
building ONE set of binaries, and ONE install script, that manages to work
in all those situations....

*This* is what I mean by "complexity of installation".

=E2=80=94 Mark

P.S.: The Windows situation seems to suffer the similar difficulties for
getting something that would work on a wide variety of developer systems.

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Howard B. Golden <span di=
r=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:howard_b_golden at yahoo.com" target=3D"_blank=
">howard_b_golden at yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_ex=
tra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">

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left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p=
adding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im"><span style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34)">Coul=
d you explain what you mean by complexity of installation?</span></div>

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>3 Mac</b></div>

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le><div style>There are one-off experience reports of varying age available=
 at Gtk2Hs/Mac. Please write to the mailing list if you are willing to main=
tain good instructions (or just start editing this page!).=C2=A0</div>

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te"><div style><br></div><div style>That would be enough to tell me the pro=
ject isn&#39;t ready. But...</div><div style><br></div><div style>That text=
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//www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs/Mac</a> - which is no walk in the park=
, has multiple variants (which do we choose?), and requires MacPorts or Hom=
eBrew - which many (most?) Mac developers don&#39;t have.</div>

<div style><br></div><div style>AND, if you want to go upstream to see how =
to build/package Gtk itself, you arrive at=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://live.gno=
me.org/GTK+/OSX/Building">GTK+/OSX/Building - GNOME Live!</a>=C2=A0which is=
 itself very complex.</div>

<div style><br></div><div style>All of these instructions have many choices=
 and variants, and many branches depending on the configuration of the user=
&#39;s system. Now imagine somehow building ONE set of binaries, and ONE in=
stall script, that manages to work in all those situations.... =C2=A0</div>

<div style><br></div><div style><b>This</b> is what I mean by &quot;complex=
ity of installation&quot;.</div><div style><br></div><div style>=E2=80=94 M=
ark</div><div style><br></div><div style>P.S.: The Windows situation seems =
to suffer the similar difficulties for getting something that would work on=
 a wide variety of developer systems.</div>

<div style><br></div></div><br></div></div>

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