Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> 
>> Questions remain about what GUI lib to bring in, to augment the OpenGL
>> suite.
>>
>>     * gtk2hs
>>     * wxHaskell
> 
> I tried GTK+ (with gtk2hs) a few years ago, together with Glade (the 
> windows designer for GTK+), and found many serious bugs in a short time. 
> I decided not to use it. It might just have been the Windows port that 
> has these bugs; SourceForge showed that only one person was working on 
> that port. That is not the only downside: it has an LGPL license.

I'm on MacOS and it's similar for me. GTK just keeps crashing randomly 
or behaving weirdly, reducing the utility of cool tools like  hp2any .

Even if it's not a native GUI on MacOS, I'd at least accept gtk2hs if it 
were bundling a precompiled version of the GTK libraries that just works 
(tm).


Regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

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