Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric Y. Kow wrote: >> Also, a lot of the potential darcs hackers (Haskellers) tend not to >> use Windows... so we want to focus on things that would be attractive >> for them to work on for now. > > IIRC, one of the Simons at MSR offered to give free copies of Windows to > Haskell hackers interested in working on getting better Haskell support > in Windows. At the time the offer included hacking on darcs, and was > highly intended for getting better support for darcs on Windows... now > that GHC is moving to git that offer might not be valid anymore, though...
(I have no personal interest in Windows or darcs on Windows, but I'd just mention my view on such an offer.) It seems to me a more attractive offer would be a shell account (I guess that means RDP in the Windows world) on a grunty box running Terminal Services. That means that babysitting the hardware, and installing and configuring stuff like GHC, is taken care of by someone else -- leaving "me" (that is, the darcs hacker) free to worry only about darcs on Windows -- rather than Windows itself. It also saves me from having another expensive, noisy machine sitting in my office, though that's less important than the hassle of adminning it. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
