Dave Herman wrote: >> Thanks Dave, that would be great. Could you let us know how things stand once >> you know more? > > It's looking good. Despite the fact that SML/NJ doesn't appear to have > upcoming plans to support Windows binaries, MLton (http://mlton.org) > does and has for a long time. We have written pretty exclusively to the > standard of SML so porting to MLton has remained pretty easy. Last night > Graydon and I successfully built Windows binaries with MLton. We should > be pushing out another release ASAP that will include a Windows (Cygwin) > binary. > > I have to look into licensing, but I believe if we can include the > Cygwin DLL with the Windows binary, there should be no dependencies > whatsoever and you can just download and run.
Fantastic! Hopefully Windows users will soon be able to provide useful feedback based on first hand experience. :-) > For the future, however, I do want to improve the build process to make > it easier for the uninitiated. SML/NJ and MLton both tend to be a little > tricky to install, though, so that goal may be trickier. Good luck with that, and thanks for your efforts guys! Jonathan _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
