On 16 August 2004 15:37, Carsten Schultz wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:31:04PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: >> a cursory browse of the sources shows up things like "POpen" and >> "Posix", both no-nos, as far as portable ghc code is concerned (no >> longer supported in the default ghc for windows, AFAIK). it would be >> good if ghc-users would keep that in mind when writing portable >> Haskell code. > > Maybe someone should have a look at popen functionality in Python. > IMHO Python seems to have quite good libraries which work on Windows > and Unix.
There is a portable System.Process library here: http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/process/process.tar.gz Haddock docs here: http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/process/System.Process.html This library is slated for inclusion in GHC 6.4. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
