>| [has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so
>| windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?]
>PS Also you could just build GHC yourself! It's not hard these days.
I don't doubt that in principle, and I'm happy to hear it (I'm sure a
lot of work has gone into making it so). In practice, however:
- my trusty old notebook's spec:
W98, PII 366MHz, 192Mb RAM, 6Gb Disk
this is fine for most apps and small development, but the only
free space on this generous disk is what I get by deleting other
stuff, and building largish things takes longer than downloading
them (e.g., a full HaRe build takes just under an hour, compared
to a few minutes on a normal system) - no chance for GHC builds.
[yes, I know it's long overdue for replacement, and I look forward
to keeping more up-to-date with GHC afterwards; the point is that
"low-spec" systems live long these days, and have a share of the
market because everyone's latest-and-greatest will join them in
a few years; they are quite useful long after being shiny, so we
shouldn't take recent sytems and their specs for granted]
- I like to do stuff others can use, so even after I can build GHC,
that won't help those who can't or won't. So I look ahead for
things to come, but tend to stick to things that are here (or
readily available, which is why snapshots would help).
Cheers,
Claus
PS. I never was quite sure why Haskell systems need an installer
on Windows? There used to be Haskell libraries for accessing
the registry, so filetype-associations and Start menu entries
could be done optionally, by a little separate Haskell program,
and since GHC doesn't do any localisation or PATH settings,
the rest would mostly just be decompression and unpacking,
right? Or is that too naive a view of things?-)
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