Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Lennart Augustsson
IMHO, no one in the right mind uses Windows voluntarily. :) I'm forced to use it at work, and it's a pain. But since many are forced to use Windows it would be nice if ghc was as well supported on Windows and Unix. On Nov 22, 2007 12:11 AM, Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-21,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Lennart Augustsson wrote: IMHO, no one in the right mind uses Windows voluntarily. :) I'm forced to use it at work, and it's a pain. But since many are forced to use Windows it would be nice if ghc was as well supported on Windows and Unix. What he said. ;-) I will say this: GHC itself

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Nov 22, 2007, at 14:25 , Andrew Coppin wrote: It's just installing anything from Hackage which turns out to be really difficult. I understand Windows developers are a tad rare round here, so maybe that's understandable. I'd certainly be interested in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Jonathan Cast
On 22 Nov 2007, at 11:16 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Aaron Denney wrote: On 2007-11-21, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, lots of Haskell-related things seem to be extremely Unix-centric and downright unfriendly towards anybody trying to set things up on Windows. If I didn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Aaron Denney wrote: On 2007-11-21, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, lots of Haskell-related things seem to be extremely Unix-centric and downright unfriendly towards anybody trying to set things up on Windows. If I didn't already know a bit about Unix, I'd be *really* stuck!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Nov 22, 2007, at 14:25 , Andrew Coppin wrote: It's just installing anything from Hackage which turns out to be really difficult. I understand Windows developers are a tad rare round here, so maybe that's understandable. I'd certainly be interested in hearing about anything practical