
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:07 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Ian,
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 3:22:23 PM, you wrote:
The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.6.1
can you please include in win32 distro c++ compiler, as it was done before and as it requested by trac ticket http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1024 ?
Is it just me who thinks this is a silly idea? Why should GHC include a C++ compiler? If you want a C++ compiler then install one. Otherwise where do we stop? why not just chuck in a pascal and java compiler while we're at it. The fact that ghc currently uses a C compiler on most platforms makes it a special case. I believe the plan for windows in future is to not include a C compiler at all and to always use the native code generator. So I don't think it makes sense to be adding more bits of gcc when we plan to remove it entirely in future. Duncan