Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Felipe Lessa]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:39 PM,  <briand at aracnet.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:56:23 +0200
> Axel Simon <Axel.Simon at in.tum.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> As far as I can see, there is a gradual overhead of C libraries
>> involved here. The Platform could ship the following subsets of
>> Gtk2Hs:
>>
>> cairo
>> cairo+glib+pango
>> cairo+glib+pango+gio
>> cairo+glib+pango+gio+gtk
>>
>> It's a question of how big the tar ball is and how much work it is
>> to bundle the C libraries with the Platform.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> That's why I voted for including just cairo.
>
> it's low overhead, high quality and gives your haskell install access to
> cross-platform graphics capability.

How useful is cairo without pango?

Cheers,

-- 
Felipe.