One really helpful thing would be to

· make a wiki home page for the Windows Task Force

· list who is on it

· list the main tasks “in flight” and what their status is

· any other plans

Anything to broaden visibility of the WTF, and encourage others to join in. Communication is all in an open-source context!

Thanks for working on Windows… it’s a very popular platform, and needs your love!

Simon

From: Darren Grant [mailto:dedgrant@gmail.com]
Sent: 17 February 2015 05:03
To: Mikolaj Konarski
Cc: Phyx; Roman Kuznetsov; ghc-devs@haskell.org; Simon Peyton Jones; David Macek; kyrab; Gintautas Miliauskas; Martin Foster
Subject: Re: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

To expand on that (let's see if I can do this without accidentally sending again, oops!):

Roman, I will get in touch with you on a separate email thread to see if we can find an optimal way to coordinate, something that satisfies our schedules and needs. Others please feel free to bug me any time by email (dedgrant@gmail.com) or on freenode #ghc as dedgrant, PST hours.

In the meantime I'll be auditing some of the related backlogged tickets on trac. If there's something I can do to help further the goal of a Windows Task Force page, please let me know.

Pleased to meet everyone!

Cheers,

Darren

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Darren Grant <dedgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you kindly for the great introduction. I hope I can be helpful here.

On Feb 16, 2015 7:47 AM, "Mikolaj Konarski" <mikolaj@well-typed.com> wrote:

Resending, since Roman's and Kyril's email addresses were mangled/missing.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
<simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Darren
>
>
>
> Excellent! We have a Windows Task Force, consisting roughly of the folk in
> cc. So they would be the first group to ask.
>
>
>
> (I think it would be very helpful to have a Windows Task Force home page, so
> that it’s easier to find the group.)
>
>
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> thanks for helping with Windows.
>
>
>
> Simon
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>
>
> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Darren
> Grant
> Sent: 15 February 2015 07:36
> To: ghc-devs@haskell.org
> Subject: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I notice there are a series of related long-standing issues subject to
> particular cygwin64 quirks, and I'd like to offer time to help resolve these
> if possible
>
> At this point I've had some exposure to the GHC build process (7.8.3), and
> have poked around the GHC linker to gain some low level insight.
>
>
>
> Would anyone be available to fill me in on the current state of affairs with
> mingw64 GHCi linking? For instance, is there ongoing work, or perhaps a
> preferred direction but no available developer bandwidth to proceed?
>
>
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> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darren
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>