John Lato <jwl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH > <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > > On 2009 Feb 25, at 5:23, John Lato wrote: > >> > >> Brandon Allbery wrote: > >>> > >>> I have to second this; I'm a Unix sysadmin, 98% of the time if I'm > >>> writing a program it's for Unix *and* requires POSIX APIxs, and > >>> even if it could apply to Windows the program needed there would > >>> be very significantly different. __And we have a Windows group for > >>> that. > >> > >> 2. __As of now, the "Windows Group" seems to be mostly Duncan. __And > > > > Wrong Windows group: __Duncan doesn't work for us. > > > > Sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you meant a Windows group > within the Haskell community, not within your company. > > Honestly, what I wrote wasn't directed at you. As I mentioned before, > writing code as a Unix sysadmin has very different priorities than > writing for many other problem domains. Most of your code wouldn't > make sense outside a Unix context, whereas bytestrings, tries, or > graph libraries would. > I don't think it makes sense to talk about missing support on any platform: In a strict sense, how well a platform is supported is a function of how many people care to use it. While there seems to be a disparity between people developing programs on/for Windoze and people working on Windoze's cross-platform capabilities wrt. Haskell, this does not mean that you can rightfully expect people who chose not to use your favourite platform to give a damn about it. Search for allies amidst your pals.
I honestly doubt that iff a viable[1] way to support multiple platforms exists any developer aware of it would choose a platform-locked in alternative. This is the only thing you can hope for, and the only thing you need to provide to other developers to get platform support for free. There's a free lunch, after all, but you gotta bring your own dishes. Or pay someone to spoon-feed you, but that's another issue. [1] Which mostly means "negligible additional work for the developer" -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe