On 22-Feb-2001, Alastair Reid <reid@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
While on the subject of preprocessors, I thought I'd mention a need I've found in distributing tools like Knit where the intended audience isn't expected to:
What's Knit?
1) Care either way about it being implemented in Haskell
2) Have any desire to spend half a day installing lots of Haskell-related tools (greencard, c2hs, happy, etc.) on their machine before they can try out my tool.
Why not just distribute binaries for the platforms of interest? Or runhugs scripts? I must be missing something. -- Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.