[HOpenGL] Maintaining the OpenAL and ALUT packages

[Andrew Miller]

Hi all,

I haven't been able to get in touch with Sven Panne, who is also the 
maintainer of the OpenAL and alut packages.

Given the conceptual similarity between OpenAL and ALUT, and the fact 
there is no specific Haskell audio community, would anyone object if I 
was to treat this list as the maintainer of those packages (or 
alternatively, can anyone suggest any other lists that would better 
serve as maintainer)?

Here are my proposals for patches to OpenAL and ALUT, respectively...
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With recent ghc and cabal versions, the ld-flags options don't seem to 
do much when compiling which ghc (since ghc handles the invocation of 
ld, and so the flags in the package description don't make it to the 
linker).

This causes compilation of the shared library build of OpenAL to fail 
for Windows platforms, since MinGW ld is fussy (by default) about there 
not being symbols in a shared library that are not linked to an import 
library.

I attach a patch which instead sets extra-libraries to include the 
appropriate OpenAL library, which seems to fix the build.
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Here is a patch doing the same thing, but for ALUT; it also changes the 
calling convention to be ccall, which seems to be required at least for 
the official freealut Win32 binaries.
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Finally, I also propose that the maintainer be changed to 
hopengl at haskell.org in the package description of both packages.

Any feedback, either on the maintainership of the packages, or the 
specific patch proposals, would be greatly appreciated. I propose that 
in the absence of objection within a week or so, I upload the patched 
packages to Hackage.

Best wishes,
Andrew Miller

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