On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:59:24PM +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote: >> I don't think this state of affairs is unique in the Haskell world. >> Some people use Linux, Mac, or Windows as their main development box, >> but pretty much everybody tries to support all platforms. >> >> Incidentally, Andrew Coppin (CCd on this thread already) is one of those >> that has sent me patches. >> > > OK, now I'm puzzled. I don't remember that! :-}
OK, I went back and looked at my Git logs and you're right. Wrong Andrew. Sorry. > I recall _trying_ to get a few of the database packages to build (I > cannot remember which one(s) now - there's so many). In fact, IIRC, I > even got the "base" package to build, but the driver for my database > wouldn't build. (I forget why exactly.) In my experience, almost > *everything* on Hackage consistently fails to build on Windows, so I > think by this point I'd more or less given up even trying to make things > build for me. In short, I didn't follow this one very far... At least, > that's how I remember it. I guess this is where somebody digs up some > thread on cafe from 3 years ago or something and proves me > wrong. :-} I would welcome bug reports and, even better, patches for this stuff. But I was pretty sure that HDBC and HDBC-ODBC in particular are working on Windows. -- John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe