"Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > 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?-) >
No, not at all -- at least not for nightly snapshots, good old tarballs is the best way to distribute these. Installers makes better sense for releases though, providing a one(2?)-click package for people to get started with GHC, i.e., not requiring users to have misc utils (e.g., tar/winzip) installed on their machines. Writing a Haskell program that manipulates your file type associations wouldn't be hard. --sigbjorn _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
