Personally, I successfully use Wine to build, ship and test for Windows.
There are some pitfalls related to -optl-mwindows and encodings,
but, if you launch your program with $LANG set to proper windows
encoding like cp1251 and the std handles closed with 0- 1- 2-,
it should crash on related
kudah wrote:
Personally, I successfully use Wine to build, ship and test for Windows.
There are some pitfalls related to -optl-mwindows and encodings,
but, if you launch your program with $LANG set to proper windows
encoding like cp1251 and the std handles closed with 0- 1- 2-,
it should
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:46:37 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo
mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
kudah wrote:
Personally, I successfully use Wine to build, ship and test for
Windows. There are some pitfalls related to -optl-mwindows and
encodings, but, if you launch your program with $LANG set to
I just want to say that Windows support is much better than one could
get the impression from this thread. I use Haskell on Windows as well
as OSX and Linux. I think it works very well now, previously one had
to know a bit of trickery to get things done.
I don't think I have run into any more
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote:
On 12-11-20 08:20 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't
imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows.
What's the probability that your
Let's put some numbers on this.
(1) In this country, you can buy a second-hand dual core desktop for NZD 200
(roughly USD 165, EUR 130). You can buy a new laptop for NZD 400
(roughly USD 330, EUR 260). Not fancy machines, but more than adequate
to compile and build stuff. Shipping
Hi Johan.
I haven't looked in detail at the overall problem, but:
Flags chosen: base3=True, base4=True
Why is Cabal setting both base3 and base4 to True?
This looks completely fine to me.
The Cabal .cabal file is stating:
if flag(base4) { build-depends: base = 4 } else { build-depends:
:03:20 -0500
From: Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal failures...
At least I paid my 3 hours to explain some cabal stuff at
http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml
Thanks to all for the comparisons between apt cabal.
Your reply basically explains why it is broken, and gives a rationale
(cost and trouble to do it), but no prognosis for repair.
It's an open problem.
I make do with disposable sand-boxes, using cabal-dev to build them. In
this way, I can
On 12-11-20 08:48 AM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
It was also interesting to note a comment that most developers don't have access
to a Windows machine for testing. With Windows at 90% of the computing market
(Linux = 1.6%), this seems like a problem which might limit growth of Haskell
usage.
could limit the
availability of Haskell to the largest market share of users.
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal failures...
To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
On 12-11-20 08:48 AM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
It was also interesting to note a comment
On 12-11-20 05:37 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
No; the first sentence says that someone else had reported that testing on
Windows was hard to do because of (a perceived) lack of access to Windows by
Haskell developers... The implication is that Haskell developers (only/mainly)
use *nix.
I
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote:
On 12-11-20 05:37 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
No; the first sentence says that someone else had reported that testing
on Windows was hard to do because of (a perceived) lack of access to
Windows by Haskell developers...
Why not? Either way, I am chiming in as a programmer of many years. Unless
using osx I stick with windows to avoid half-day forays into nettling
technical issues that are not related to the work I am paid to perform. I
would love for Haskell to work better there.
On Nov 20, 2012 5:21 PM, Johan
On 12-11-20 08:20 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't
imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows.
What's the probability that your household has a Windows computer if
you're a programmer that don't live with your
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote:
This counter-argument is flawed. Why limit oneself to one's own household?
(Garage? Basement?) Get out more! Visit a friend. Talk to an internet cafe
owner for a special deal to run one's own programs. Rent virtual machine
Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
Clearly, since 90% of computers have Windows, it should be trivial to
find one to test on, if a programmer wants to. Surely every programmer
is surrounded by Windows-using family and friends? (Perhaps to the
programmer's dismay, too, because the perpetual I've got a
Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
This counter-argument is flawed. Why limit oneself to one's own
household? (Garage? Basement?) Get out more! Visit a friend.
If that friend is not a coder, they are unlikely to have the dev tools
installed.
Talk to an
internet cafe owner for a special deal to run
+1 to this. The friction of finding, setting up, and using Windows isn't
even comparable to just sshing into another unix box and testing something
quickly.
As a university student, I also find it relatively rare that I get to test
on a Windows machine. My personal computer runs linux, my
Hi Greg,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote:
I follow the Cabal-messes threads with some interest, since that is the
hardest area for me since starting to use Haskell. Probably 40-60% of all
package install fail for some mysterious reason, with threats that
cabal install -v cabal-install
Not sure if you're running into this one, but a configuration that
wasn't working for me:
1) Install Haskell Platform
2) Install GHC 7.6.1
3) cabal install cabal-install
As I recall, the error had something to do with a Cabal-generated
'Paths' file assuming the
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Greg Fitzgerald gari...@gmail.com wrote:
cabal install -v cabal-install
Not sure if you're running into this one, but a configuration that
wasn't working for me:
1) Install Haskell Platform
2) Install GHC 7.6.1
3) cabal install cabal-install
As I
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal failures...
I'm not quite sure what's going on. I've CCed Andres, who wrote the new
constraint solver.
One especially confusing part is this:
C:\Users\guthrie\AppData\Local\Temp\Cabal-1.16.0.3-12392\Cabal-1.16.0.3\dist\set
up\setup.exe
configure --verbose=2 --ghc
On 12-11-19 04:25 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
I am not exert in the area, but I wonder how /why/ this is different than other
package managers, like apt in Linux, I have never had any problems with it, and
I would think that their dependencies are of at least similar complexities.
I feel very
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