Kyle, we need you to help us with windows support! :-) On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Simon Peyton Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> A couple of poor assumptions are made here. > > > > I’m not sure where “here” is. In my email I specifically said exactly > what you are saying (only I was not as eloquent as you). > > > > What we need is some developers who are willing to give some love and > support to the Windows version of GHC. And *they* really are thin on the > ground, unfortunately. > > > > Simon > > > > *From:* ghc-devs > [mailto:[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>] > *On Behalf Of *Kyle Van Berendonck > *Sent:* 01 April 2014 13:54 > *To:* > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > *Subject:* Re: Haskell Support on Windows (Simon Peyton Jones) > > > > A couple of poor assumptions are made here. > > The first is that the userbase of GHC on Windows is poor. This is false. > In fact, the poor state of Windows is mentioned on #haskell more frequently > as of late. In the last week I've talked almost every day to (different) > people who have had Windows woes with using GHC. The hacker-base isn't here > at the moment - I agree, but the user-base most certainly is. Could this be > a problem with the demographic, or could it just be that Windows > development isn't inviting? The build system and default test failures > in-particular are a source of discouragement. > > The second assumption is that GHC/Haskell will be worth a dime in the > RealWorld without Windows as a primary tier platform. I'm going to put a > crude guess that given the overwhelming magnitude of C#/F# coming up on my > local careers portal that there's far more industry on Windows than on OSX > or Linux. Those are all the businesses where the probability that they will > ever touch Haskell goes from `probably not right now` to `impossible`. Let > me also remind you that Windows still holds 89.2% of operating system > market share ie the people that hackers and developers actually have to > deploy their applications to. > > Sorry to sound fumey, but there's all this suggesting that everyone would > have a better day if we dropped Windows (let's be honest, if it wasn't a > primary tier platform nobody would have fixed it for 7.8), but I doubt few > of the people who think it's a "great idea" or sslt have actually thought > through whether it's the best thing for Haskell or just the best thing to > get 7.8 into their hands a couple weeks sooner. > > Regards. >
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