[Haskell-cafe] Why can't libraries/frameworks like wxHaskell/gtk2hs/... be used with newer versions of ghc/wxWidgets/GTK+/... ?

[John Millikin]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:55,  <caseyh at istar.ca> wrote:
> Why can't libraries/frameworks like wxHaskell/gtk2hs/... be used with newer
> versions of ghc/wxWidgets/GTK+/... ?

Haskell libraries statically link many parts of the Haskell runtime;
you can't combine two libraries compiled with different versions of
GHC.

Any bindings (like wxHaskell or gtk2hs) should work fine with new
versions of their original libraries, assuming upstream has maintained
backwards compatibility.