Gtk2Hs

This release is only needed for Windows users. If you have version 0.9.7 working there is no need to upgrade.

Source and binary packages are available for Windows. There are binary packages for Gtk+ 2.4.x and 2.6.x. The binary packages require GHC 6.2.2.

You may wish to use Gtk+ 2.6 since it follows the Windows native look and themes whereas Gtk+ 2.4 did not.

Installation on Windows is fairly straightforward. There is an installer for Gtk+ on Windows and installing Gtk2Hs just involves unzipping and running a batch file. Instructions are here

For future Gtk2Hs releases we hope to provide an MSI installer to make it even easier.

Changes since 0.9.7:

• build fixes for Windows
• almost all modules now carry LGPL 2.1 license
• a couple of extra functions are now bound

Other changes since the last release announcement:

• there is an introductory article by Kenneth Hoste that appeared in the first issue of The Monad.Reader.
• a complete website redesign
• many new screenshots
• packages of version 0.9.7 are available for Gentoo and FreeBSD

Please report all problems to the mailing list:
gtk2hs-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Contributions and feedback are also most welcome.

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