7 Nov
2006
7 Nov
'06
6:57 p.m.
Hi
Hmm, that's tricky. How do you propose that we solve it?
Currently we specify a name without the extension. On windows of course most executables have a .exe extension so we automatically append that.
We don't want people to have to say: executable: foo.exe
since then it's not portable to non-windows. So how can we infer that no extra .exe extension is required? Is it reasonable to guess that if it already has one '.' in the name that we shouldn't add a .exe extension?
Yes, I think thats the logic GHC seems to use, so you need logic that matches GHC. I think in this case I'd rather the generated executable from GHC was index.cgi.exe on Windows and just index.cgi on Linux - but I'm not sure how to get that going. Thanks Neil