RE: Haskell Support on Windows
| I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are | Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other | than to ensure that GHC works on it. ... | Perhaps it should be demoted to second-tier GHC support as well, at | least to the extent that Windows bugs won't hold up a release? That's true. But many, many people *use* GHC on Windows. It would be terribly sad to abandon them. What we need is more developers to volunteer to help look after the Windows version of GHC. One or two are doing so, but we need more. Please! Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Haskell Support on Windows
I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other than to ensure that GHC works on it. Windows is already somewhat of a second-class citizen in Hackage, where platform-sensitive packages tend to only work out-of-the box on Linux. Perhaps it should be demoted to second-tier GHC support as well, at least to the extent that Windows bugs won't hold up a release? (I write this as a Windows user who also manages some Linux servers. I agree that Windows support is important, but it seems to be unreasonably taking far more than it gives.) -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Haskell-Support-on-Windows-tp5746711.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
SV: Haskell Support on Windows
Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. Niklas - Ursprungligt meddelande - Från: harry volderm...@hotmail.com Skickat: 2014-03-31 14:27 Till: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Ämne: Haskell Support on Windows I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other than to ensure that GHC works on it. Windows is already somewhat of a second-class citizen in Hackage, where platform-sensitive packages tend to only work out-of-the box on Linux. Perhaps it should be demoted to second-tier GHC support as well, at least to the extent that Windows bugs won't hold up a release? (I write this as a Windows user who also manages some Linux servers. I agree that Windows support is important, but it seems to be unreasonably taking far more than it gives.) -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Haskell-Support-on-Windows-tp5746711.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: Haskell Support on Windows
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.comwrote: Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. +1 I believe there's at least one investment bank that uses Haskell on Windows. Perhaps they could set one up. ;) ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: SV: Haskell Support on Windows
Niklas Larsson wrote Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. We need a meatbot who can fix Windows issues in GHC. What's the current state with buildbots? Wondering around the wiki led me to http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/, which suggests that nothing's happened since August, and there are a lot of broken bots. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/SV-Haskell-Support-on-Windows-tp5746713p5746728.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
