wxhaskell components and news

So, I made this little diagram showing the basic components of wxhaskell. It might be not entirely correct, but I hope it will be useful for anybody who wants to help out.



Also, as you might have noticed, wxhaskell is now on hackage as an experimental pre-release. Let me know if you have any trouble building it, or getting it to run sample applications. There's still a few painful bits, (1) you still have to use wxWidgets 2.6 and not the newer 2.8 [we're working on it] (2) that it assumes your wxWidgets is compiled with --enable-mediactrl (this should be relatively easy for us to fix and (3) for Linux, wxcore 0.10.2 requires that you configure wxhaskell --with-opengl (the darcs version fixes this) and (4) for Windows... well I don't know; shelarcy can build it just fine using Visual Studio, I think and the darcs version of cabal should now be happier with our Cabal files.

In other news, we're now much more disciplined about using the wiki to note problems installing wxhaskell and to propose solutions. We're also now paying closer attention to the bug tracker (triaging them), and have made it much easier for users to submit bug demonstrators (see our bugs/ directory). I hope these new habits will make us more responsive.

So we're not really ready for an official release, but we're getting closer. I'm hoping we get there sooner rather than later. I want to see more people playing with neat tools like Phooey and Autoforms, both of which are on hackage.