ANNOUNCE: hIDE version 0.1346269

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Jonas Svensson <d99josve@dtek.chalmers.se> wrote,

> Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 07:23:46AM -0700, Krasimir Angelov ->
> >      Hello, Jonas
> > 
> >   Is there any chance to run the hIDE under Windows?
> > 
> 
> It is theoretically possible but it would be rather much work.
> 
> ``Unix-only'' stuff which hIDE uses:
> 
>         * Some unix programs (easy to fix)
>         * gtk+hs (gtk 1.2 is not really supported under windows)
>         * the Haskell Posix library (the binary version of GHC for
>           windows does not include the Posix library as far as I 
>           know)
> 
> The main problem is that gtk+hs does not currently work under windows.
> I have not looked at the Haskell GUI bindings for windows so I don't
> know how difficult it would be to port. 

This will change with support for GTK+ 2.0.

Manuel