Yes. It does not compile on my Mavericks machine. Same with every graphics package I've tried.
I don't think I've ever been contacted concerning issues with Windows or MacOS, which is probably indictative of the size of the user base combined with probability of any one person deciding to go to the effort. On the other hand, I have fixed genuine build failures for Linux users because the platform is diverse enough that it "worked on my system" but not theirs.
In any case, my contact details are on the HsQML Hackage page. If you'd like to send me the error message you're seeing, I'd be happy to try and help you get it working.
Both! It's in the ghc-pkg dump output, though there's doubtless a better way at getting at that. As for Hackage, if you just pare the above link back to https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hsqml you'll find package meta-info which includes:
Author Robin KAY
Maintainer komadori@gekkou.co.uk
Home page http://www.gekkou.co.uk/software/hsqml/
Source repository head: darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/komadori/HsQML/Edit: On reflection, I find your assertion a little strange here. Anecdotal failure to build on one particular setup doesn't seem like a particular highlighting of bad bindings.
(unless you count HOC, but I never actually got it working as-was - I brought it back from bit-rot on a couple occasions, adding ObjC 2 support and rewriting a fair chunk of the low-level stuff, but never did find the time to update the fragile header-parsing stuff for the actual Cocoa-binding generator)
Probably so. Though I would suggest that the neither one is a small niche in itself. Mac especially--it's the favored platform for every developer I know except one. Yes, it's less popular outside tech circles (probably due in part to the price).
Imagine this scenario: There are tons of Mac users who want to learn Haskell. They try it, but can't install libraries. The Haskell community never hears from them; one could say the system failed silently. Meanwhile, Linux works fine, and the Haskell-Linux community keeps growing.
So perhaps there's a self-reinforcing Linux-centric bias in the developer population.
Your general point - that it's likely self-reinforcing - is certainly strong. I'd even expect it to be exacerbated a bit in this case by it being GUI things in particular showing issues, where (at the risk of stereotyping) there is probably a correlation between those who prefer a Mac and those who prefer a GUI.
Interesting. It must be clustered, as you say.
I use a Mac largely because there are a handful of professional apps that don't run on Linux. (Otherwise, I'd probably go with Mac hardware and a Linux OS.) Which implies that the demands of my industry is what pushed me (and perhaps the people I know) onto Macs.
> there is probably a correlation between those who prefer a Mac and those who prefer a GUI.
It's not so much that I personally prefer a GUI. (I don't, in general.) It's that I make a lot of software for other people, so GUIs aren't a matter of preference but of professional obligation. Also, there are certain applications I'd like to do where a GUI is pretty much the only sensible option: Design tools, certain types of games, etc.