Hi, apologies again about disappearing completely. I started a new job recently and have been flying all over the place. I'm happy to see that D339 (auto-download mingw, upgrade version of gcc) has been merged, but there is an issue that needs followup. Austin mentioned that we need a Perl distribution for a proper GHC runtime. This is not a problem while running in msys2, since msys provides a perl binary, but this makes packaging a self-sufficient GHC distribution harder, AFAIU. Can we punt on this and let the Haskell Platform folks figure out how to package Perl properly (that's the only context where it's necessary, right?), or is this an urgent issue? If the latter, should we roll back D339 until it's resolved? If we really need to package perl, the PortableZIP edition of Strawberry Perl http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html should work, I think. It's on the heavy side (92MB) and would probably need to be trimmed beforehand though. Are there any utilities other than ghc-split which rely on perl at ghc runtime? If not, are there any plans to convert ghc-split to a sane language? I would sign up if I knew I would have the time... :( -- Gintautas Miliauskas