Re: How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

There's a ticket to track discussion around removal here:

  * http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/57

Removing large C library dependencies is generally a good thing;
however, removing functionality is bad. And we don't have
a good track record for adding functionality yet.


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jens Petersen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7 April 2011 06:51, Don Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Moving those modules under OpenGL.*.*.StateVar etc would remove the
>> problems with upgrading to the HP.
>
> Perhaps it would be a good time now to revisit again whether
> we really need to include OpenGL support inside HP or not.
>
> I grant that it may be convenient for users who might find it
> hard to build OpenGL and GLUT with cabal-install; on the other hand
> not that many haskell packages actually need those libraries AFAICT
> so I am still not convinced that they really belong in HP.
>
> Maybe if hopengl provided upstream binaries for current Windows and Mac HP
> that might lessen the burden on the HP binary maintainers too?
>
> Jens
>