It really depends on what you are looking to teach!
For professional dev with lots of packages and different projects then
sandboxing is a must.
I imagine for a lab you could get away with what's in the haskell platform.
I got cabal-dev going on a windows box not too long ago. When I get home I
will have a tinker.
I am sure someone with more windows experience than I can chime in.
On Aug 16, 2012 6:28 PM, "Gregory Guthrie"
Thanks for the clarification and info.
From this I then deduce: Using "cabal install" is dangerous, and leads to broken package structure (inconsistent package versions and shadowing). Better to use cabal-dev, But it requires network, which is external to Haskell, and a pain to build (on windows)...
Thus, no good solution on Windows - is this right?
Since Windows is 94%+ of computing environments today (all of our labs use Windows, and "standard" IDEs), then Haskell is not a good fit? We want to use Windows since that is what students will generally see in their professional environments.
I hope not...!! :-)
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Ahh, I think network is a pain to build on Windows. I don't as a rule do any haskell on windows because of the headaches of msys / mingw.