Krzysztof Skrzętnicki wrote:
My experience from using GHC under Windows XP is very similar. Many
packages (especially those involving bindings to C packages) are at
least painful to build.
+1
Also have to love packages that use Unix-specific features as part of
their build process. (I even found a page on the Wiki that recommends
the use of Bash scripts. Hmm...)
I vividle remember Dons repeatedly telling me that I should try out
[some package who's name escapes me], and then discovering that it
doesn't actually work on Windows at all. (Couldn't this critical
information be included somewhere prominent on Hackage??)
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