[Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 20:20 schrieb Achim Schneider:
> Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 09:17 schrieb Ketil Malde:
> > > Peter Hercek <phercek at gmail.com> writes:
> > > >> Relinking against newer Gtk2Hs versions might not work.
> > >
> > > You have the option of recompiling the new Gtk2Hs with the old GHC
> > > and relinking, don't you?
> >
> > Relinking is technically not possible because of inlining.
>
> I don't think the situation is any different from providing C headers
> that contain macros or inline functions.

But as Peter Hercek said, the LGPL limits the amount of macro expansion for C 
libraries. And the amount of GHC’s inlining would probably exceed all 
limits. ;-) 

Best wishes,
Wolfgang